You Can Draw in 30 Days: The Fun, Easy Way to Learn to Draw in One Month or Less (9 page)

Try drawing a few holes in the larger spheres. Holes and windows are great practice exercises for learning how to draw thickness correctly. Here is an easy way to remember where to draw the thickness on windows, doors, holes, cracks, and openings:

You can see I had some fun with this lesson. I started going crazy and added windows with boulders launching from them. I was about to draw a bunch of doors, skateboard ramps, and hamster travel tubes between the spheres. I pulled my pencil back at the last second, not wanting to overload you with too many ideas, too fast. Then again, why not? Go for it!

Take a look at a few examples of how other students completed the lesson. You can begin to see unique drawing styles beginning to emerge. Each student will have his or her own unique approach to the lessons.

H
ad enough spheres for a while? Let’s move on to the all-important, extremely versatile, always-a-crowd-pleaser cube. The cube is so versatile that you will be using it to draw boxes, houses, buildings, bridges, airplanes, vehicles, flowers, fish . . . fish? Yes, a cube will even help you draw a fine-finned fish in 3-D. Along with helping you draw faces, flowers, and, well, just about anything you can think of or see in the world around you. So let’s draw a cube.

 

1. Starting on a fresh new page in your sketchbook, write the lesson number and title, date, time, and your location. Then draw two dots across from each other.

2. Place your finger between the dots using the opposite hand you are drawing with. Then draw a dot above your finger as shown.

3. Look at the dots you have drawn. Try to keep these two new dots really close together. We are about to draw a “foreshortened” square.

4. Shoot the first line across.

5. Draw the next line.