Lesson eight is creativity. This is invention. This is making new
things. Now, what we've been looking at in all of the previous lessons is
how to draw. And the way things are, what we're now looking at
is the way we'd like things to be. We're trying to make new things. And, of course, a vast
number of drawings are made as a way towards invention. They're not made purely
to record the way the world looks. They are made in order to design the world
as we would like it to be. Now, it's the most difficult aspect
of drawing to teach, because it's not so much what's going on outside. It's what's going
on in your head that becomes important at this time. And to demonstrate it, I can't
be creative for you now. I know we could if we left the camera rolling for a couple
of days, I'm sure come up with something very interesting. But just in the short period of time,
I want to demonstrate it by putting together two drawings into one image. And the
two drawings I've chosen is one of this fragment of a leaf and the other is this
image of the snake. Now, of course, in nature, this is a meeting that could take place.
But what I'm going to do is an inventor meeting on a sheet of paper. And the way I
will start is by just simply drawing one on top of the other.
I've decided to use the Midtown Grey paper, a dark and a light pencil
to execute the drawing in. But to start with, I'm going to work with a graphite pencil
so that I can just feel my way into how this drawing might look. So first
of all, I'm just going to sketch out where the leaf might go.
And then wave the snake into it.
That I think. OK. Now I've got a rough placing
of what we're going to do now. I will make it look as though the light is
coming from this direction. So shadows will be off to this side and using a white pencil.
Get in the edge of a snake.
Then I should put the darker side of the snake in.
Now, that leaves the light side of the leaves,
the dark side, the light side
and the dark sides. Now
we need to have the pattern of the snake.
Then we just add a little bit more shadow so that it makes it more Three-Dimensional.
And it begins to look more like a relief carving. So what I'm drawing is a snake.
Mingling with a leaf as though it were
a carving on the wall of perhaps a temple or church.
He has more light coming this way.
I can see how it makes it all look more three dimensional. Look at the
underbelly of us like here.
Even cast a slight shadow here. No, we are a snake
wriggling through a leaf.