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0:00hey everybody welcome back to my channel
0:02so today we are going to talk about art
0:05exercises that can help unlock your
0:07imagination so let's say you're kind of
0:10in a rut I've talked about this before
0:12in previous videos but you're in a rut
0:15and you don't really know where to start
0:18for a page of
0:20sketches so what you could do is take a
0:22marker okay light gray preferably it
0:26could be warm gray cool gray doesn't
0:28matter just make sure that it doesn't
0:29really go anywhere past 10 to 15% and
0:32then we can start splashing on some
0:35shapes here with just a gray marker so
0:39the reason we're doing this is because
0:40we're eventually going to turn these
0:41into small robots and this is always fun
0:45this is my industrial design inner uh
0:48voice talking right here and the cool
0:51thing about robots is it goes hand inand
0:53with creatures if you want to stay with
0:54creatures but essentially you just take
0:57the fat end of the marker and you see
1:00what kind of shapes can come out when
1:02you start applying them to the paper so
1:04you'll notice I'm I'm not really caring
1:07about where things go and the other cool
1:12thing about that is when you start
1:13laying down the ink on top of this cuz
1:16we'll be drawing with a pen we're going
1:18to start adding in machine parts and
1:20panels and these things could be small
1:23robots
1:25probes old dilapidated I don't know
1:28machine parts that maybe don't work
1:30anymore they're not in
1:31commission the and uh this is very
1:34versatile too because you could be doing
1:37stuff for an industrial design project
1:41and let's say that you're coming up with
1:43some kind of device for a specific
1:45client or company and you're
1:49needing specific or not necessarily
1:52specific you're just needing a bunch of
1:55Silhouettes really quickly this can help
1:57do it so you don't have to rely on on
2:01details with just a
2:03pen okay and the reason I'm using the
2:05fat end of the marker is because it
2:08takes care of a lot of space right off
2:10the
2:12bat so looking at these these are just
2:16gray splotches right now okay there's
2:18nothing fancy about that and if you're
2:20drawing along with me just look at your
2:23paper and go okay I'm going to keep
2:26going I don't really care about what
2:28each shape looks like I can always turn
2:30it into something
2:32later cuz how many times have we want to
2:34draw have we wanted to draw a robot and
2:37it turns out to be something horrible
2:40looking and it doesn't look like a robot
2:43it's because we were thinking too hard
2:44about it all right so these Silhouettes
2:46that we're drawing with all these big
2:48marker Strokes it's already filling in a
2:50lot of the gaps it's just up to us to
2:53piece together with a pen what is a wire
2:57and what is a pipe and that's what makes
2:59it so much fun
3:01and and look how quickly I just did six
3:03already Okay so this right here can give
3:05you a full project for your
3:08portfolio all right so let's go
3:10to what 1 2 3 four 5 six seven let's go
3:14to seven try something a little
3:16different maybe something a little
3:18bigger and
3:20curved maybe this is a futuristic city
3:23where they send hovercraft
3:25probes and they you know kind of like a
3:28Minority Report
3:30or probes to send out for
3:34reconnaissance that'd be kind of
3:37cool none of these are actual robots per
3:40se because they don't they don't really
3:42have big legs and and arms that can help
3:46it walk I mean they might but they're
3:49most likely just hanging down from it
3:51and those can always be not spare parts
3:55but maybe maybe parts from the probes
3:58that aren't really useful anymore they
4:00just kind of hang down maybe they're
4:01sensors who
4:05knows all right there we go okay so
4:09right off the bat I have nine of these
4:12so the next step is grab a pen see what
4:15I got oh yeah I got my colorful pen
4:17again I actually don't know where my
4:19ballpoint pen is that I've been using so
4:21I need to go to the store and get some
4:23more okay so let's start doing it let's
4:27first let's first name these or number
4:30let's first number
4:32these
4:34three I'm old school too
4:38so I'm going to make this as analog as
4:40possible I'm not going to do anything
4:42fancy
4:44here there's just something so rewarding
4:47and pleasing and I guess soothing to the
4:50soul when you can just draw on paper and
4:52doodle and and have fun with it at the
4:55same time okay so let's see what we can
4:58do so the pen I'm using I have no idea
5:02where I got it I think my my boys found
5:05this somewhere at their daycare
5:07maybe maybe in my oldest son's in
5:09kindergarten so maybe he found it there
5:12but I'm going to start playing with
5:13these shapes here without really
5:15worrying about exact Machinery or
5:20joints I'm just going to hint at what
5:23could be versus what actually would be
5:26later so that means the refin M stage a
5:31direction that is
5:32chosen you know things like
5:36that okay so now I'm just paying
5:39attention to the outline of what I gave
5:42with the marker and I'm going to see if
5:44I can really play up on those shapes so
5:48maybe some off-the-wall mechanical
5:50joints here that might function or might
5:55not okay I'll put in a little bit darker
5:57of lines just so it can give the
6:00indication of some
6:02Shadow I mean we're talking like real uh
6:07clunky type of Technology maybe maybe
6:11this is a point in the future where
6:13people had to rebuild a city that has
6:15been devastated by war or maybe a
6:21natural disaster or maybe it's set in
6:23the Far Far Future where history kind of
6:26repeats itself they say and maybe we
6:29have to go back to the drawing board and
6:31start making machines that could better
6:33Our Lives I keep referencing in my head
6:37the movie elisium I love that movie I'm
6:40a big Neil Blum Camp fan so any any
6:43movie he comes out with I I
6:45love and you know you saw how how clunky
6:50some of the technology is in those
6:51movies and chappy too but they all
6:54worked and they all they're all
6:56good there we go
7:00okay so I try to imagine that maybe the
7:03light source really isn't established
7:05yet I'm just kind of showing off the
7:08outline in general because above all the
7:12silhouette is the most important part
7:14all right so if you're drawing along
7:16with me that's awesome let me know what
7:20you do join our Discord check the links
7:22in the description below and if you join
7:25the Discord we have plenty of space
7:27there for posting your personal work
7:30taking advantage of the monthly creature
7:33design
7:34challenges and we also have a really big
7:39growing reference Forum there too for
7:43animals and sci-fi fashion and ships and
7:47creatures it's just a lot of
7:50fun and if you post your work there we
7:52can always critique it and look over it
7:54see what's working what
7:55isn't oh this is kind of cool
8:00I've always been a big fan of cables and
8:03pipes I think they just look neat when
8:06you're connecting an area to another
8:08area I'm trying not to stray too far off
8:11of what the the original silhouette was
8:13doing so if I'm adding detail in between
8:16the out outline that's okay I just the
8:21the lines that I'm putting in here right
8:22this
8:23second if you can't see them are
8:26following where the marker stopped okay
8:29so I'm just literally outlining the
8:31splash of the marker
8:34here okay and as far as like what brand
8:38of marker to use I mean it doesn't
8:40matter there there's there's so many
8:41cool kinds like I just used prismacolor
8:43for this you can use Copic you can use
8:46H2 all kinds of
8:51markers so I'm going to put in some
8:52visible
8:54screws to show that it it really is old
8:56school
9:01and notice how I'm just playing up with
9:02different gestural lines here so some of
9:04them are thicker some of them are
9:06skinnier that's what's really going to
9:08add depth to something like this
9:11something as simple as a thumbnail
9:13sketch you can still add a lot of depth
9:15to okay something like
9:18that and then one of the things that I'm
9:21going to show you guys how to do after
9:23this is adding an accent color so accent
9:26colors are great for robot sketches and
9:30just product sketches in general because
9:32it makes the thumbnail pop but also it
9:35gives it a focal point and you want to
9:39you want to grow interest within your
9:40designs by adding focal points which is
9:43why when you guys watch me draw my
9:45creatures I tend to focus on the face
9:47because that's where the character and
9:49personality is or if I'm doing some kind
9:51of robotic weird alien shape I'll I'll
9:55put it in a place on the body where
9:58there's good details
10:03did you guys just hear my ESPN app go
10:05off yeah maybe I should pause that I got
10:08to turn that
10:09down I have all my
10:12apps uh ready to go for sports just
10:15because you know football season is here
10:17can't wait
10:20NFL and I always have my ESPN open for
10:25my my
10:27teams you know Bengals
10:30Steeler fans out there Chiefs fans out
10:33there Ravens fans out there I'm so sorry
10:37but I'm a Bengals
10:40fan that's cuz I was born and raised in
10:43Cincinnati so I have a right to be a
10:44Bengals
10:48fan okay oh also I didn't even tell you
10:51guys this I have a a folded piece of
10:53just printer paper right behind this
10:55sheet because I'm I'm putting marker on
10:58mol skin and marker tends to bleed
11:00through mol skin
11:02so uh yeah it it just helps that way
11:06okay so at the bottom of this particular
11:09silhouette there's a lot of crazy cables
11:11hanging off here and I think there's
11:13going to be a neat opportunity to have
11:15something really gritty and
11:18maybe thrown together as part of some
11:22kind of scientists experiment or
11:25military or maybe like a resistance
11:28faction
11:29where they piece together certain
11:31machine parts and they kind of make
11:33something work I think that's what I'm
11:35going to
11:40do there we go and again these aren't
11:43final there's a lot of stuff just a lot
11:46of stuff hanging off here a lot of
11:49interpretation this is going to be seen
11:51by a lot of people and maybe each
11:53individual person is going to interpret
11:56these shapes differently so for example
11:58Maybe
11:59maybe this is a probe sideways and then
12:02maybe this is uh some kind of weird
12:04machine part that fell off of a factory
12:06or piece of factory equipment maybe
12:08that's a camera you know and this one
12:11maybe that's a a part that was taken
12:13away from an engine like there's so many
12:15cool capabilities here and
12:19possibilities and we're at the point
12:21right now the exploratory phase where we
12:24don't have to Define each face we just
12:27have to come up with something that
12:28could potentially be awesome
12:33later so like here I'm just going to
12:35give the illusion that this is the
12:37underbelly I'll probably darken those
12:40crazy Contraptions hanging off of here
12:43just to give the illusion that there's
12:45no light underneath it's also going to
12:47give nice indication of depth for my
12:51little machine part here I should
12:53probably do the same over here
12:56too there we go and again if if you
13:00didn't catch my last video I was trying
13:02to explain that there's a lot of
13:04construction equipment going on around
13:07my neighborhood so you might hear
13:09jackhammers
13:10and um big machines backing
13:15up and and I had mentioned that part of
13:19the reason why I was drawing robots last
13:21week was because the construction
13:24equipment that we saw in my neighborhood
13:27and just kind of motivated me to do it
13:30okay so there's three let's move on to
13:32the fourth
13:33one this one's a little cooler in the
13:36sense that bulbous shapes so there could
13:39be some organic shapes in here which is
13:44unique for placing them with uh
13:49machines I don't even know the the
13:51purpose of this but we can see what
13:54happens so that's kind of cool they're
13:56almost like little creatures too
13:59after all this is a not a strictly
14:02creature design CH Channel but it's
14:04close
14:07enough there we
14:10go by the way thank you all for watching
14:13my live stream last time and trying to
14:15name the Critter that I drew we got some
14:18really good
14:19names there we
14:21go so this one's going to be a little
14:23bit simpler I I took some larger shapes
14:27here and I just defined them
14:30maybe I'll hatch in
14:31here just single hatching Direction uh
14:35some Shadow and then that's obviously
14:36going to be dark this is going to be
14:39dark let's just pretend that it's lit
14:41from above I think I'll do that I don't
14:45really know what to think about this
14:46shape uh I think probably needs
14:49something at the top but I don't really
14:51want to add too much because I'm trying
14:52to honor what I had silhouetted with a
14:55marker so maybe maybe if hypothe
14:59atically speaking this thing was refined
15:01somewhere down the line I would be able
15:03to add to
15:04it cuz I can always add stuff inside
15:07here just little wires
15:09and little
15:13connectors there we
15:16go okay we got that that one's kind of
15:19cool different but I'll take different
15:23all right let's move on number
15:25five number five looks like it can have
15:30these very long thin body parts running
15:33across the entire thing maybe there's
15:36some wires in here I'm trying to honor
15:38again the the
15:39outline of what I did with the
15:44marker okay so this is going to be a
15:46pretty round shape at the bottom so
15:48immediately I'm thinking H it might be
15:51dropping a small little grenade or a
15:54bomb on an enemy or it's organic and
15:58that's its Bur brain and then it's
16:00controlling the rest of the machine
16:02above it that would be kind of gnarly
16:06actually there this little antenna there
16:10cuz there's a lot of opportunity inside
16:12all these little crevices for some
16:13really cool intricate machinery and
16:15wires and
16:20pipes there we go let me know in the
16:23comments below what you guys are working
16:25on currently like if you're in school if
16:28you're drawing along with me and you
16:30found this inspiring you know I always
16:32try to help artists as much as I can and
16:36you know if you have a lot of questions
16:38I I do see all comments I just can't
16:41answer I can't answer all of them in
16:45depth but if you join our Discord check
16:48the links in the description you can see
16:50that uh there's a lot more people that
16:52can possibly help you with specific
16:55portfolio questions or drawings that
16:56you're doing
16:59oh that one's pretty clunky actually
17:00that literally looks like a dinosaur
17:03mouth that was
17:06unintentional maybe this can be a brain
17:08and it's attaching to the
17:11machine very symbiot
17:16like there we
17:18go kind of clunky too so maybe I'll
17:21round off some some place this I don't
17:24really like cuz it looks like a little
17:25T-Rex mouth so I'll put some wires
17:31here we
17:36go I made sure not to cough right in the
17:39mic because I think in past videos I've
17:42scared you
17:45guys I've had people comment on that too
17:47like I scared people by coughing too
17:52loud without
17:54warning okay so let's move
17:57on all right let's see what happens in
18:00this one um that looks like a little
18:03little
18:06robot totally not thinking it would have
18:09been a robot but now it's almost like
18:12there's little arms com out
18:14here uh it's going to be
18:17asymmetrical maybe that part
18:19bends that'd be kind of
18:23neat so the bottom here uh well here's
18:27the thing that could be the face
18:29but at the same time it's probably not
18:31going to have a lot of detail on it so
18:34instead I'm just going to play up the
18:35bottom here it looks like something
18:39walking oh what did I
18:43do I have no idea what I just drew here
18:45but it's it's kind of
18:48cool okay maybe this is a visor to some
18:51kind of robotic space
18:53suit look at this here I was not wanting
18:55to draw humanoids and I just drew a
18:57humanoid and now I'm really liking
19:02it and the cool thing about the
19:04progression is I wouldn't have gotten to
19:06this idea unless I had done the previous
19:09five so that's why it's always cool
19:11to go back and look at your old
19:14thumbnails cuz they can spark ideas
19:16something from two three years ago
19:17actually if you're working on a current
19:19IP for a client or something and you
19:22look at your old sketchbooks and you go
19:24you know what I always like that
19:25silhouette and then you just use that
19:27one and refine it sometimes that
19:31works revisiting old work is a lot of
19:33fun it's also not
19:38easy I'm avoiding that hand I don't
19:40think I want to give it hands right
19:43now maybe I'll give it like a little
19:46wire that's definitely in
19:49Shadow okay that will be let's just put
19:52the
19:53front right
19:56there I'm picking and choosing where I
19:58want the Shadows to be just as long as
20:00it's relatively
20:03consistent okay last row so we
20:07got yeah we got some cool probe looking
20:10things some more actual robots maybe
20:13with heads and mouths I don't know where
20:15this is going these seem to be a little
20:17bit more
20:20insectoid so let's see if we got some
20:22biomechanoid shapes here so I'm just
20:24going to do the large plating first
20:32there we
20:34go kind of looks like a dinosaur just
20:36standing
20:38there holding a
20:43pipe down here could be a leg very thick
20:47leg and then the other one okay so
20:50that's what we have and I didn't even
20:52mean to do that we have like a little
20:53critter uh bipedal and it's standing
20:57there so
20:59I originally wanted to keep the smaller
21:01robots for the theme
21:03today but this is what it has evolved
21:06into so thank you all for going with me
21:08on this weird journey of strange machine
21:11shapes started with a
21:15marker okay and we don't really want any
21:17more detail than that we don't need
21:21that there we
21:24go looks like somebody is using their
21:28wood shipper you might you might hear
21:32that okay what a crazy looking head that
21:35is it just looks like a little
21:38stegosaurus looking thing holding
21:40a like a rolled up map or
21:44something oh the fun of thumbnailing
21:47everybody's going to interpret it
21:48differently including
21:51me and that's what makes it so much
21:56fun little tail in the back
21:59more Shadow right here right underneath
22:01that plate there we go and you can
22:03always just jump in here and add some
22:07smaller details you can gesture across
22:10here to kind of fill the Gap and also
22:12add some texture maybe give us some more
22:15paneling not really worried about
22:18joints it's just the overall
22:21shape little little Shadow for the tail
22:25here there we go okay so we are going to
22:29finish off these last two I'm really
22:32intrigued by these these two it they
22:36almost
22:37feel they almost feel like aliens
22:40without them being actual machines kind
22:44of reminds me of the movie um battle Los
22:47Angeles I think battle La battle Los
22:49Angeles comment below if you've seen
22:51that movie it's when Aron eer it's where
22:53the aliens come in on the beach and then
22:56they just attack the city just really
22:58gritty very underrated sci-fi movie I
23:01like it a
23:03lot but the shape here I don't I'm not
23:06really sure what's going to
23:09happen but I'm trying to honor what I
23:11did with the marker so let's see what
23:13happens cuz remember we're we're doing
23:16machines so I need to show the paneling
23:20and like the gaps in here where there
23:22might be a
23:25joint of course also the fun thing about
23:27doing
23:29machines this early in the game well not
23:32an actual game but this early in the
23:34drawing process is that any machine part
23:38that you're drawing you're essentially
23:39making up until you have to go in and
23:41and give the functionality of it like
23:45how does it really move and animate what
23:46are the joints
23:48like this is just the the fun design
23:51phase where we can get cool shapes in
23:56here so it looks like there's a lot of
23:59scrap pieces hanging off the belly of
24:02this
24:05thing there we
24:10go so much left open for
24:14interpretation I mean this could be
24:15anything this could be a an an exhaust
24:18and Nole to some kind of factory
24:22equipment or maybe this is a part inside
24:25of a a spaceship you know
24:31or hey it could be a reconnaissance
24:34probe who knows maybe we add like an
24:36antenna a couple of them so it picks up
24:39all kinds of signals that'd be kind of
24:43neat and you can find it anywhere it
24:46is within a 400 mile
24:51radius I'm just thinking as I'm
24:54drawing just trying to put just trying
24:56to put my own creations and context see
25:00what the heck I'm I'm
25:03doing so maybe maybe the end of that
25:05tube is is a hand there we go it's a
25:08mechanical
25:10hand similar to
25:12those crazy skill Master machines where
25:14you can grab toys out of with that
25:16mechanical hand that never grabbed a toy
25:19H so many times I got close at at
25:21winning stuff in arcades and I just it
25:24just wouldn't grab it they do that on
25:26purpose they make they put the stuff in
25:29there that can't be
25:31gripped there we go I'm going to do the
25:33same thing to number nine
25:36here and remember after this if you're
25:38sticking around stick around a little
25:40bit longer because you can then watch as
25:44I put accent colors on here and really
25:46make some of this stuff
25:48pop so here I am just trying to honor
25:52the uh the silhouette that I had drawn
25:55with the
25:56marker even the gaps in here with a
25:59marker didn't cover those could be holes
26:01in the in the
26:06machine there we
26:11go okay that's a that's a really sharp
26:13angle so maybe it's supposed to be and
26:15then and then the rest of this is
26:16leaning a little
26:19bit this looks like a little weighted
26:24bell all right so maybe this one maybe
26:26all the stuff that would need to make it
26:28go forward is right up here in this
26:32compartment so you can see how I'm
26:34overlapping a lot of dark medium and
26:36light gestal lines to try to add depth
26:38without going crazy about adding depth
26:41because you don't want to spend too much
26:43time on that otherwise
26:44it'll you know you'll spend 15 20
26:47minutes on one sketch you won't you
26:49won't have time to really do
26:53anything there we go that's all I need I
26:56don't need any more than that
26:58details that looks like a astronaut
27:01helmet doesn't it a little bit wasn't
27:03intentional I'm just following what I
27:06did with the marker kind of gross
27:09actually okay so the next step would be
27:12to add some accent colors to really make
27:14this pop so let's do that okay let's
27:17have some fun here so I just got a an
27:21orange Copic
27:23Marker and I'm going to put some accent
27:25colors in
27:27here and like right there uh maybe maybe
27:31one little strip going down here that's
27:33bleeding Over The Line work and I I want
27:36to I want to switch up these colors okay
27:40so I'll just maybe put red on certain
27:43ones this actually I don't know if this
27:45is really
27:46red yeah I think it is red all right so
27:49maybe maybe red can go right
27:52here and then
27:54maybe there that would be cool let's do
27:57another red one down here
28:00um inside there and then we'll put red
28:04color right
28:06here I'm just putting these in in spots
28:09that I think they could stand out based
28:11on the shape of the
28:14silhouette all right now let's put in
28:17this cool orange
28:20color so maybe this whole panel right
28:23here's has a nice color to it and then
28:28what should we do with our old pal Ralph
28:30down
28:31here isn't Ralph cute here we'll give
28:34him an orange head and then a stripe
28:36down the body and then maybe a stripe
28:38down the rest of the body there you go I
28:41hope he enjoys
28:42that and we can't forget our our good
28:45old pal
28:46green okay you can't have concept art
28:49without
28:51green all right so this is a little bit
28:54deeper of a
28:56color Okay so maybe uh back here this
29:00this panel only is green this is why
29:02it's good to
29:04use pen and then put the accent color on
29:07top of the pen because it doesn't really
29:10matter if it stays inside the line what
29:12matters is the pen will show up through
29:14the marker you can't do this really with
29:16pencil you just got to be careful
29:18because the graphite will just bleed
29:20away um but with a pen the pin work
29:25still shows up so that's kind of cool
29:30and it gives a nice natural outline
29:32without you really having to worry about
29:34anything oh we can't forget a this one
29:37down
29:39here there we go we can even combine
29:42some too so let's say we don't want to
29:44do it too much we want to keep these as
29:46simple as possible so I think this one's
29:48kind of feeling neglected so maybe we'll
29:51put red and green on this
29:54one that's not red that's hot hot orange
29:56I'm sorry
29:58I keep saying red I know that's not red
30:01it looks red but it's
30:03not okay and then once
30:07here okay there we go so hopefully you
30:11found this lesson awesome and and
30:13helpful please comment below and let me
30:16know what you guys are working on if
30:18you're doing High School assignments
30:21College assignments if you're trying to
30:22work on personal projects for your
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30:26Discord if you have any questions you
30:29can answer them and there and more and
30:31more people can help you and they can
30:33also point you in the right direction
30:35with critiques and I'll join in so um
30:39thanks again for tuning in everybody
30:41hope this lesson was helpful and I'll
30:43see yall later

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