Start Drawing PART 9 - Draw a Simple Boat - PaulPriestleyArt

Hello, my name is Paul Priestley. Welcome to ArtTutorialsOnline.com. Today I'm going to be showing you how to draw a simple boat, like this one here. You see? Now, to be able to draw the boat, you have got to be able to spot the number eight. The number eight is on its side. Can you spot it? Here it is. If you can draw the number eight and the two lines down the side, you've more or less got the drawing of the boat. So, let's make a start. For this drawing, I'm going to be using an HB pencil, a 4B pencil and a piece of graphite. Now, as you can see here, I'm practising drawing my number eight. I'm going to draw it very, very lightly, first of all. Now, make sure that the circles of the number eight are very long and thin. You don't want them circles, you want them very thin oval shapes, as you can see. Now, I'm going to just draw in very lightly the couple of lines at the front for the bow of the boat and I'm also going to draw the line at the back. Now, you notice everything has been drawn very lightly. Draw it lightly first of all and then you can check to make sure you've got everything right. Before, as you can see now, you start drawing over it with a stronger, darker line. I'm using an HB pencil for this and as you can see, I am just drawing over the basic shapes. Now, I want to try and get the outlines right, the basic shape right, as you can see here and I'm working down the side of the boat. Now, when you're doing any drawing, you must always try to sketch out the drawing very lightly first of all and check that that is correct before you start doing anything else. Once you've done that, everything else is easy. You can see here I'm just doing the top part of the boat here and drawing the inside of it just to give it that 3D feel to it. The same with the sides here. There's a few little horizontal lines here for the inside structure of the boat and a few little side pieces here just to show how the boat actually fits together and has been constructed. Okay, now we're going to draw the planks on the side and again, the planks on the side, remember, have got to follow the curve of the boat. So, the lines have got to sweep down in a nice sweeping motion so that you can see how the drawing comes together. Now, you've just got to do this. You've just got to go for it and as you can see here, if the lines are not absolutely perfect, it's not a major problem because the boat's not going to be absolutely perfect either. A few little dots here to represent the way that the boat is being constructed, the bolts that have been put into the boat to put it together. Now, I've swapped over now to my 4B pencil and I'm going to start adding in some of the shaded areas inside the boat. Now, what I'm trying to do here is to give the structure of the boat. Now, remember that light will catch the edges of these planks which is why I'm leaving those little white lines. Okay, and I'm just shading in the shadow. You'll also notice that I am not pressing on as hard now as I was a moment ago. Varying the pressure that you put on with your 4B pencil can give you a whole range of tones. So, don't just press on the same way all the time. Keep varying the pressure. Keep leaving little white sections as you can see here. You see and it picks up the highlight then of the edges of any planks. Now, you'll notice when I'm drawing the shading on here, I'm using the shading to follow the shape of the object. So, horizontal shading on horizontal planks, vertical shading on vertical planks. Same at the front here. I'm just blocking in this piece here. This area here is very dark so I wanted to do underneath the very thick plank that runs along the top of the boat. Now, we're just going to strengthen these lines here and this is why we have made sure initially that we have got them in the right place because now that you strengthen them, it's easy to get them correct. You see, you can just go over them and we don't want to be rubbing them out and making mistakes. So, here we go making all these lines which work nicely. Now, you'll see here I'm going to put in these little blocks. Now, these represent the nails that construct the planks. You've got to make sure you don't make them too precise. You can see what I'm doing here. I'm just putting blobs down and because I'm doing that, it looks so much more interesting. Don't be too neat and precise. So, just going over the edges now, adding a few little darker tones to the inside of the boat as you can see. Here, this is working quite nicely now. Nice and structured. Again, horizontal shading on horizontal areas. Now, I'm using a piece of graphite here as you can see to do the front bow of the ship but I've just noticed I forgot to put that plank in. Aha! Even I make mistakes, you see. So, I've rubbed that little bit out and I need to just redraw that little section there. Now, we go back to our piece of graphite. This area is very dark so I'm using the side of the graphite, pressing on quite hard here but gradually blending away, putting less and less pressure on as I come across the boat, as you can see. So, you get that gradual change of tone. Works really nicely, okay. Do the same on the side main plank that runs along the top of the boat. You notice I haven't gone right to the top here. I'm leaving some little areas white because it gives the evidence of highlights. This area here is much darker so I'm pressing on darker with my graphite. You'll notice now because I'm emphasizing the graphite here at the front part of the ship, you see how three-dimensional the boat is beginning to look. Looks so much better. Add a little bit of graphite to the back here. Now, we're going to do the reflection in the water. You'll notice that the reflection is simply that. It's a reflection and you can measure that out as you can see here. Now, I'm doing that reflection by simply using horizontal lines, rough lines which follow the basic shape of the boat in the water. This is obviously very calm water as you can see here. I'm just darkening some of these tones here, getting the higher islands. Now, you'll notice it's suddenly gone very atmospheric. The reason is one of the bulbs on my lights have just packed up so it's gone dark on one side which actually makes the drawing look rather nice. So, I'm just going to finish off now with the darks. I hope you've enjoyed the drawing. Thank you for watching ArtTutorialsOnline.com. I hope you've enjoyed the video. If you have, please give it a like. That would be really appreciated. 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