Let's create some interactive art through this makey makey graphite drawing tutorial that uses scratch. We'll gain inspiration from others and nature on the way to bringing our masterpiece to life and some sound effects that will gain from some online resources. All this coming your way. [♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ Hello world, surfing scratcher here. I teach a surf program of bringing you the goodness of learning to code through video tutorials. If you're new around these parts, then consider hitting that subscribe button to stay in the loop. I've also got a link to the surfing scratcher mailing that you can find in the description below. Educators, if you sign up to this, I'll send out some monthly news and resources straight to your inbox. All right, here's what you're going to need for this tutorial. Makey makey, alligator clips. We need a sketchpad to sketch on. We need some graphite pencils, specifically an A, B, and a 6B. Eraser, a sharpener, some paper clips, and some split-pin paper fasteners. I've got all these materials available on a kit on kit.com. But hey, let's get drawing. The piece of art that we're going to create here in this video is based around the four seasons, so summer, autumn, winter, and spring. I'm using this understanding of the four seasons because it's probably the most common. But down here in the southeast and corner of Australia, I'd like to acknowledge the indigenous perspectives of the six seasons, which relate to some different signals in nature, which is pretty cool. I've got a link in the description and a card coming up in the top corner if you're more interested about that. So what I've gone ahead and done is just grab a sheet of paper and I've gone over in a light HB pencil, just an outline here of what I'm looking to do. So I'm going to have summer represented here in the top right corner and have autumn in the top left, winter, and spring down in the bottom right. I love drawing, but I certainly don't clean to be an artist. So is the helping hand for this one? I use this book here, 20 ways to draw a tree, which is really cool. In this book by Eloise Renov, we've got different objects that we can go and head and draw. So what I've gone ahead and done is just select a few to represent our seasons. I've got a link in the description if you're interested in that. So what I'm going to do now is grab my HB and six big graphite pencils. I'm going to go over the tree and create some dark colorings. We're going to use those to complete our circuits with the makey makey. Okay, so you'll see here that I've gone over the tree in a big graphite pencil. And I've also gone over this bird in a big graphite pencil as well. Notice that there is a slight gap between the tree and the birds, because what we want to do is if we touch the two, then we want to play a sound. So this tree here is going to be the ground. And this bird here is going to be connected to a button. Let's go test this out to see if it works. Okay, so you see here in the makey makey, I've just got this green cable connected up to the ground. And I've got the other cable connected up to the space key. Let's go hook this up to our drawing. Okay, so I've just got the green cable here, which is attached to the ground on the makey makey to the base of the tree. And I'm going to take this yellow cable and I'm just going to place it on the bird. So at the moment we have an uncompleted circuit, but when I get my finger and I place it between the bird and the tree, I've hooked up scratch to play a sound. There we go. So this is just the test. We want to make sure this is working. This isn't the final product. Let's continue. Okay, so I've gone ahead and added in all my conductive objects. So I've got a mushroom here to signify winter. Now, so I feel like which one I'd be conductive, I've got a leap up here for autumn, our bird for summer and a busy bee here in spring. I've gone ahead and I've already tested all these and I know that they work. So we can go ahead and complete the rest of our image, however we want, but we know we can connect these objects to some sounds in scratch. All right, I'm going to leave my image here. I could keep going, but I want to jump over into scratch. So let's head over there now and hook all this up. All right, here we are over in the scratch project editor. I've just gone ahead and taken a photo of our drawing and I put it here on the stage as a sprite. We've got four objects here. We've got the bird, we've got the leaf, we've got the mushroom and the bee. And we're going to use the tree trunk as the ground connection. So what we'll do is we'll associate each of these objects with a button press and that button press is just going to refer to the arrows on the keyboard. Let's go get those code blocks. I have those code blocks now. I've just got the, when the up arrow is pressed, when the down arrow is pressed, right arrow is pressed and the left arrow pressed haplocks. I got those from the events category. Now, when each of these buttons is pressed, we want to place them to sounds. So in order to do that, I just want to jump over and share with you a couple of sound resources. First up, I'm in the YouTube Audio Library, link in the description. The YouTube Audio Library is awesome because you can go ahead and you can sort by a mood, yeah, which is awesome. So for summer, I've got this bright mood and I'm also interested in some ambient sound. And I've got one here that's called Rising Sun. So I'm going to use that for my summer sound. And the other cool thing is that if you click this drop down menu and go attribution.required, you don't need to attribute the sounds in the projects that you're working on. So it's really cool. The other sound resource that I'm using is from the user app, Swat website, link down in the description. It's cool because you can download heaps of free sound effects that are sorted into categories. For us, just bear in mind for the free account. You can only download three sounds per 10 minutes. And if you use sound effects from ZatSmart, they just require you to attribute them in your project. I can just be via a text link. All right, let's go get those sounds that I've downloaded into this project. So I'm going to click the sounds tab of our four seasons bright. I'm going to click the choose the sound and I'm going to upload some sounds here. I've got that Rising Sun. I've also got some bees, some workgrounds and leaves and some bird effects here. So I'm just going to upload all of those into Scratch. Head all over to the sound categories and grab a start sound block. I'm going to associate our left arrow with the summer because summer is here in the top right hand corner. So I want to start the sound Rising Sun. I'm going to duplicate that. And I also want to play some bird sounds. Beautiful. I'm going to go ahead and do the same thing for the other seasons and these other arrow keys. All right, I've got our leaves for autumn. I've got our wet ground for winter and I've got our bees buzzing around full spring. Let's jump back over to the Mickey Mickey and hook all this up. I've connected alligator clips to our arrow keys here on the Mickey Mickey. If you're a little bit unsure about circuits, go check the card in the top hand corner now. You'll see here on the back of the drawing, I've connected up our alligator clips to two paper clips. I've got our green alligator clip connected to the ground and our yellow clip connected to the right arrow key which is the winter sound. And you'll see here that I've got the paper clips here touching the graphite pencil. You don't need the paper clips, you could just directly attach the alligator clips here if I don't mind this solution. So in order to complete this circuit, I need to be touching the ground and I need to be touching the mushroom. And there's our wet sound effects. Through our other three objects, I've got these paper fasteners here and I've inserted them on top of each of the objects and they're going to be connected to the graphite pencil. I'll flip over this piece of paper. I've got a head and clip down all those alligator clips with the back of the paper fasteners. Now we can go ahead and complete the circuits between the gaps of the objects. We'll go over the bird first. Let's try out the leaf. And now let's try out the bee. You may need to do some editing of the sound, check out the card in the top corner for a link to that video. So that's it. This is the basics of how you can create an art project using some conductive materials like graphite pencil, some paper clips, some fasteners. You can check out some other materials like metallic paint as well. Let me know how you go. It's time for a scratchy question and I want to know what was the theme for your piece of art? Drop your answer in the comments section down below. Hey, thanks for checking out this of Mickey Mickey art tutorial. Be sure to smash that like button if you enjoyed it and check out some other content on your screen right now. You can show your support to this channel by checking out my Patreon page, joining the mailing list or some of my rebel team, all links down below in the description. But until then, I'm off to go find a way. Okay, until the next one.