So, welcome to this next session on drawing and sketching.

So, I mentioned previously and

in our last session, just to keep the drawings that you've produced earlier, so today we're
going to return to the drawing from the last session. Now in that session we obviously
looked at these three shapes, set in a the horizon and this, what we've described as what
could be representative of a road the heads off into the distance here. So, I explained that
this could be the start for seen where we might be exploring, you know, what could be
some buildings on a street, three buildings here, this one this side of the street, these two
the other side of the street, with this road going off into the distance and room here for, you
know, what could be the start of a path along the edge of the buildings. So, today I'm going
to look at really putting a triangular, effectively a triangular shape, on top of these two
shapes which could represent a roof. Now, I want to point out that whenever we're doing
these sections it's not just particularly about doing this drawing here, what I want you to
understand and learn is really drawing a range of shapes, a range of techniques that are
transferable into all sorts of designs, drawings, work that you want to do. So let’s make a
start. So, first of all, what we're going to do is we're going to look at this shape here and
we're going to put a triangular shape on top that could, as I say, represent a roof. So what I
need to do for that, is first of all, working with what was our square end of this block, we
want to extend two of these lines, like so, and using this left hand vanishing point here,
create a construction line which runs across the top of that, and there we've group created
a rectangular shape on top of this square shape. Now what I'm going to do, to make things a
bit clearer, is to remove one of the lines, so we're going to remove this line here, cause it
can confuse you when you're trying to drawing, we’re going to remove that that line there
so we can see more clearly this rectangular shape. Now this is going to be the starting point
for the triangle to create, you know, the triangular lock, a bit like a pitched roof that's going
to be on top of this shape. So, out of how do we go about doing that, well, if we imagine this
area here which is this rectangle, first of all we want to find the centre in that, now the
simple way you do that with a square or rectangle, as I'm sure you know, is to find, put in
the diagonals, so we put in these diagonal is here, now, again, what I'm drawing here are
actually construction lines, I'm drawing them fairly dark so that you can see them from the
video above me, but obviously I’ll encourage you, when your drawing construction lines just
to draw them much lighter. So, we have these diagonals, now, again, using our notion of
parallel lines we've covered in earlier sessions, so we've got two lines here which are
parallel, and also these are also 90 degrees to the horizon line, again, which we've covered
in earlier sessions, we want to put a line in here, that goes up through this centre point, so
again, this this technique we've had of running our hand up and down the page resting
again on the knuckle, making sure this line is both parallel to these two lines and at 90
degrees to the horizon, we can put that line in there. Now you can see, that now gives us
this top point here and this is the point that we're going to use to construct this triangle, so
this is going back to our, one of our earlier techniques, which was the point to point type
drawing, so we’ve got two points here, not too difficult because these are quite close
together and we get our line and there, then this point to this point here, again, is you’re
not sure, just have a few practise runs and we have that line in there. Now that is the
triangular shape that we're going to use to project to this vanishing point to create the
triangular block or what could be a pitched roof, so actually this point is going to go right
through to the horizon point here. Now to make this, make this look right and as accurate as
possible, we actually want to repeat the pattern, the process on this end face here, so again
it's creating this rectangle, so two lines here, now to decide the height of these we can
project from these top corners off to this vanishing point here, and you can see, we have
one point there and the same over here, you can see that would go off to that vanishing
point there, so I then have another point there, now I want to join these two up, and that
has created this rectangle on the end, I put that in a little bit darker so I hope you can see
that in there camera above me, and then it's the same process, we do the diagonals, that
central point of this rectangular shape, we project that up, we’ve got a point on the top and
we take that point across there, like so, and then for this particular shape, the last aspect is
we join that down to the end there. Now you can probably see, from the very simple
exercises that we covered in the first couple of sessions, moving into something slightly
more complicated, when we did just a one block shape, we're now starting to creat much
more complex shapes on the page and it starts to become bit more complicated, a bit
harder to follow and the beauty of having this as a video is you can obviously rewind this
you can watch this time and time again, just to check if there’s things you're not sure of. So,
I want a darker line in here, darker line along the top and a darker line down here. Now,
because I have drawn these quite a lot darker, let me just find my putty rubber if you bear
with me, because we've drawn these quite a lot darker, our construction lines, I'm going to
remove those or at least make them a lot fainter, as I said before, seeing some construction
lines on the page, many people like, because it does give a slightly dynamic aspect to the
drawing and also makes it more unique from something that might be computer generated.
Now, we've got rid of those around the edge, again, it's hard to really read what's going on
here with some of the existing lines, so, as you see, as I remove those, we’ll start to see this
shape appearing and again, I'll just put those, the ones we need to see back in little bit
darker. So, we’ve got our thick line around the edge of the shape and then these slightly
thinner lines within the shape. So, there you can see we've created this this triangular
projection creating this triangular block which, you know, to all intents and purposes looks
like this start of this pitched roof. Now, one last thing I'm going to do today is introduce
another technique, now, sometimes what I like to do on these kinds of images is, because
we’re using quite a soft pencil, this is a 6B, is I can just start to smudge a little bit into this
shape, and you can see, this has the, this has the, desired effect of starting to get that
shape, again, to stand a little bit more off the page. Now, if you don't particularly like doing
this with your finger, I mean it washes off quite easily, you could always practise some
shading with a soft pencil, I quite like this technique, I'm just quickly rubbing existing pencil
that’s on the page into the shape like that, if you've gone over at all, we can just run around
the edge of the shape like so, and again, that has the benefit of helping that to stand off the
page. So, there we have it, that’s another technique we've covered in this session. Now, as
before, I'd like to set you some exercises to do, now this is a perfect exercise here, because
what you to do is, go away, you will have the existing drawing from the last session, so what
I'd like you to do is then repeat today's exercise on this first shape, creating the triangle and
the pitch roof, and then I'd like you to go further and then I’d like you to practise carrying
out the same process on this second shape and also the same process on this third shape,
now this has taken me about 13odd minutes to talk through this, so I think for you this will
be an exercise that will be, I guess at least half an hour up to about an hour for some of you,
so yeah, creating these triangular pitched roof type elements on each of these shapes is the
exercise for this week. So, enjoy and I look forward to seeing you in the next session.