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Lesson eight is creativity. This is invention. This is making new

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things. Now, what we've been looking at in all of the previous lessons is

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how to draw. And the way things are, what we're now looking at

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is the way we'd like things to be. We're trying to make new things. And, of course, a vast

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number of drawings are made as a way towards invention. They're not made purely

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to record the way the world looks. They are made in order to design the world

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as we would like it to be. Now, it's the most difficult aspect

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of drawing to teach, because it's not so much what's going on outside. It's what's going

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on in your head that becomes important at this time. And to demonstrate it, I can't

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be creative for you now. I know we could if we left the camera rolling for a couple

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of days, I'm sure come up with something very interesting. But just in the short period of time,

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I want to demonstrate it by putting together two drawings into one image. And the

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two drawings I've chosen is one of this fragment of a leaf and the other is this

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image of the snake. Now, of course, in nature, this is a meeting that could take place.

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But what I'm going to do is an inventor meeting on a sheet of paper. And the way I

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will start is by just simply drawing one on top of the other.

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I've decided to use the Midtown Grey paper, a dark and a light pencil

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to execute the drawing in. But to start with, I'm going to work with a graphite pencil

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so that I can just feel my way into how this drawing might look. So first

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of all, I'm just going to sketch out where the leaf might go.

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And then wave the snake into it.

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That I think. OK. Now I've got a rough placing

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of what we're going to do now. I will make it look as though the light is

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coming from this direction. So shadows will be off to this side and using a white pencil.

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Get in the edge of a snake.

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Then I should put the darker side of the snake in.

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Now, that leaves the light side of the leaves,

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the dark side, the light side

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and the dark sides. Now

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we need to have the pattern of the snake.

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Then we just add a little bit more shadow so that it makes it more Three-Dimensional.

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And it begins to look more like a relief carving. So what I'm drawing is a snake.

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Mingling with a leaf as though it were

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a carving on the wall of perhaps a temple or church.

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He has more light coming this way.

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I can see how it makes it all look more three dimensional. Look at the

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underbelly of us like here.

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Even cast a slight shadow here. No, we are a snake

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wriggling through a leaf.