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Measurement
here's our trophy, you're gonna look at it and you say how do I draw that? I think I'm gonna use a two B. Pencil because it's gonna show up a little bit better. Normally I go for the H. B. Because I'm used to it. But try to be uh huh. Me up for B. I'll show it better. So the first thing you do is just like block something in. You know how we just put something down trace around it just to get something on the paper. It was like okay so I know it's got a circle up there and it's got a couple of arms and something goes down and there's a base and I'm not sure what's going on with this circle in that circle there's a there's a cylinder. I know. So I marked that out and then there's some other kind of there. All right, I've got that blocked in. Now. What? I definitely need to straighten something up, don't I? Okay well how do I center something and straighten it up. Now if you're used to using uh illustrator Photoshop all of these online drawing tools you say, oh well you just drag drag a ...
guide or maybe you hit, you know, click it to make it go to center. Um We can do that too. And this analog way. So I'm going to use the edge of my finger, put it on the edge of the paper, give a little feel for it because you don't wanna get a paper cut on your finger, it feels like it's gonna be too sharp and the eyeball where I think the center is fortunately I have a clip right there. I'm like, okay, that's the center. I'm not gonna move my hand the page over ready, put that down. Oh, I was pretty close look at that. Not only that far off. So now I know where the center is, it's right in between those two lines. Okay, now I'm going to look at, I'm not gonna trace this one, I'm really gonna measure it. So here we go, ready and see if we can see if we can measure this. Have you ever seen people doing this? Huh? Okay. Real artists. This is what they're doing. You have to lock your elbow, you have to lock your wrist, You have to sit real straight and keep your head in the same position because this is going to be your point of reference measurement. This is your ruler. It always stays the same and it's like the one consistent thing if you go like this and the next thing you measure, you go like this, you're not gonna get the same measurement cause you're using two different rulers. So they were sitting straight. We're locking it. We're looking at this. We're going, hmm, I think my whole ruler from the top to the bottom. I've got one eye closed and I'm always closing the same. I is that big. So you can, I kind of like dig my fingernail into my pencil a little bit. So I've got a line now you have two choices. One is, you can take that measurement and you can set it exactly down on your paper and you can decide this is how tall my trophy as. Yes. Hey held that up and I'm putting the top of it on the highest thing I see and I'm putting the bottom mark on the very lowest thing I see. I don't, it doesn't matter if it's like the front thing or the bad thing and I make that mark. And I dug my pencil my fingernail and there. So I know and I put it on there, that is how big the trophy is that I see. Or if you don't always want to draw things that are exactly the same size as your pencil, you may want to branch out a little bit, You use this as a whole and then you have to use ratios. So I think my whole is going to be this big. And I'm looking at this and I'm thinking, well it kind of looks like 4th or doesn't it? So as it turns out, let's see that's how big the top of mine is. So it's 12. Those are thirds. So two thirds if this is the height As a whole, what is 2/3 of that. I think it's going to be maybe more like here, is it? Yeah, the base of my trophy is going to be more like here, look at that. I just eyeball that really pretty far off. I thought the base was down here. But actually that base is very tall. So you're checking up on all your measurements, Okay? You don't need to leave all the extra lines. Okay, so I've got a center line and I've got the base of my trophy and I've got the top of my trophy. Okay now let's see, I think I want to do just the round part, that's that's from here to here. Okay, so if my whole trophies that big, just the round part, it's probably about that big. Okay, we can fix that up a little. If the top of the trophy stuck out a lot more and the base was very small. I would have gone like this and I said, oh look at that, that's an angle and I could actually put my angle down, but in fact mine's pretty straight. Okay, so I think this goes about that far and then this I drew that really small and actually that was a mistake that is pretty big because it has this extra big lump here like that. Okay, and let's just do one more measurement, let's get how long the arms are. Okay, that's about that big. What do I have already that I've measured, that's about that big, That's a little bit more than 2/3. So That was my 2/3. The arms are about that big, wow. The arms that trophy are a lot wider than I thought they were just by doing my drawing, eyeballing it, they actually go out about that far. Okay, now I'm going to just erase any of these ones. I got really long. Okay, so that's your measuring tool in analog world. In the computer world, you would be dragging guides and using your measuring tool, but we can drag guides here too. So remember how we centered this now. We can also do that as many parallel lines as we want. Here's one, here's one, I think I want the other side of the trophy to stick out as far as this side. So I'm turning it around. Here's one and I want this handle to stick out as far as this one. Okay there, I'm going to do Hey there. And then these ovals are another problem. These are called ellipses. Now, ellipses are always kind of a problem for beginners because it's really hard to get what's the right angle and it's also hard to measure them in relation to each other. So I'm going to show you this is too advanced for you don't worry about it. I just want you to know that this exists when you look at something, this is your eye level, your horizon is your eye level, perspective on ellipses. If you held this up to your eye level, this will be totally flat if you move it towards you or away from you, These ellipses are going to change in this crazy perspective. So basically the more you look down into something closer to a round circle it is so it works. See you there we go down there. Yeah, Okay, so that's the basic got some pretty heavy lines. Now I can repeat everything. We've just learned if I want, go back straighten up my lines, add some shading, Make it look rounder. Follow that example where, you know a cylinder that's a cylinder, a cone, not to cone. That's just the basics of measuring and eyeballing it to draw from real life.
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