Bargue 巴爾格繪畫課程 - 13 - Lines Continued

OK, so in our next video, we're going to continue doing a lot of the same things that we've been doing. I'm going to continue refining this drawing using follow through lines. Now, at this stage, it's really common for students to be like, oh, it's just one little line, I can put it in, like I don't need to do a big follow through line and erase it back. But if you can maintain the discipline of practicing your follow through lines, it will help you in the long run to train your eye to be more accurate. We talked about some of the benefits of a follow through line. It helps you relate. If I wanted to do this little line here, like oh, just one little line, right? But if instead I extend it to relate to the rest of my arm, it gives me more information at the same time that I'm thinking about this little line so that I can always make sure that the whole is making sense. We never want to get really myopic and just start going along the contour with little lines like this because we're not seeing holistically and it's very unlikely that you're going to place these correctly unless you're looking at how they relate across the entire image. So do your best. If you find yourself, you know, making small lines, take a break, walk away for a few minutes, come back with the mentality that, okay, I'm going to continue the follow through lines. It's kind of like eating your vegetables. It's just something that will help your training, help your eye see better, and it will give you a more successful result in the end. And so as I continue going through this, again, I'm going to, you know, still clean up my drawing, my reference, just to help make it easier to find more lines. Right now, I'm going to start kind of finding these follow through lines and refining this part of the arm. And again, once I have that line down, I can erase back the part of it I don't need. And in this case, by making this one little line a follow through line, I'm hitting another important point down here that's going to help me later make sure that, you know, this bump on the wrist is actually going in the right place because I now have a way to relate it to another part of my arm. Some of this down here. Because I have a few dots down here and I'm not exactly remembering which dot I'm going for, I'm going to double check before I draw my line. And I'm also just going to reinstate a little bit of a line that got lost. So I wanted to keep this line, but some of it disappeared a little bit. So I'm just going to kind of reinstate it a little bit. Okay, now I'm going to kind of work in this area and find a little bit more information about this elbow. I'm also, you know, as you're working, my notional space box is disappearing a little bit. So it's always a good idea to reinstate it as you need. You always want to make sure that you're using sharp charcoal as well. So this one's getting a little dull. You'll notice over here that I have a whole box of charcoal that I sharpened ahead of time. It's a great idea to have like 20 pieces or more sharpened at one time because then you don't have to interrupt your work to go sharpen it and you'll be less reluctant to transfer to a sharp point when you're in the process of drawing. And again, even though I'm working on smaller pieces such as this line here, I want to make sure that I'm extending it across. So, you know, sometimes if you're having an exceptionally difficult time drawing a line, like I've just drawn this line a couple of times, you know, you really can, as needed, throw down a line, you know, with a tool. If that's going to help you get more accurate. And again, different angles are harder to draw straight lines from. For me, it's a really difficult thing to draw at this angle. So I might lay down a tool to help me. And of course, once I have my line down, I can erase back the parts I don't need. Okay, so I'm just going to kind of clean all this up because I'm starting to get lost in here a little bit. Okay, so in our next video, we'll stop there for this video here. So we're really just doing the same thing that we've been doing. You'll notice that I'm kind of just working from the biggest lines I see to the smaller lines that I see to try to figure out where they belong. Now, we really need to work on this area. And the reason I've been somewhat neglectful of this area is because we have a lot of really small, short lines in here. So because we're working from the big idea to the small idea, we've been hitting all these bigger lines first. But now, we're going to start coming in here. And I'm going to start talking to you about how Charles Bark is thinking about the hand structure and what these very simple yet small lines are helping us to discover about how to draw the hands.