Hey everybody, it's Darcy. Hope you're having a great day. So the last eight months, I've actually gone back to school at the university here in London to take art classes and I learned a lot of neat things that I was doing wrong and new techniques and stuff like that. So I'm looking forward to what I can produce, hopefully, on videos going forward. What we're going to do today is something called a contour drawing. You know what? I didn't even know these things existed ever until this year and it's actually quite common but I didn't know there was a process behind it. The basics behind the contour drawing is quite simple. You just draw something. It has to be something. It can't be from your imagination. You're literally looking at something and drawing it and it's all line work. There's no shading and you're just basically drawing what you can see on a flat surface. I'm going to show you a famous example from Picasso coming up right here just to show you what it would look like. So this is a Picasso and it's called Igor Stravinsky from the 1920s and this is a contour drawing and if you look at it, this is almost a perfect example of what I'm going to try and do. There's no shading whatsoever. When you drew this gentleman, he just kind of drew the lines out of what he saw. But what you can see is just how kind of, well, if I said weird or out of proportionate does seem. For example, if you look at the face, he's got two spectacles which are completely different in size. He's got a big honk and nose and then if you go down, you can see he's got those big baseball mitt hands and then the other thing too is when you're doing this kind of drawing, if you look at the legs, you can see how it's just a bunch of lines and you can't see any depth there. So this is what we're going to try and replicate today except we're going to do a boat. So here goes nothing. Hey, so it's a pretty easy process. In this example, I'm going to take a boat and I'm going to break it into two sections. The first one is just getting the line work down, the overall outlines and then we're going to stop and I'm going to show you how kind of awkward it looks because this is sort of an awkward process when you first look at it. But then we're going to go into the second stage where we're just going to start adding more detail and then you'll see the difference of a comparison between the first stage and the end result which is actually kind of neat. So anyway, here we go and yeah. Okay, so this picture just as a reference just so you know, I just pulled a boat. Off the internet and it was just sort of a stock photo that you had free access to and it's a Boston Trailer. You can see that this is the initial stages where I'm just basically outlining everything. I'm picking the major lines that create the shape of the boat. It's funny because as human beings and this is going to sound stupid but it really helps in this. We know that a large post sticking out of a boat is most generally a mast. So when you're doing line work of something like that, your mind tells you it's a mast. So you'd go and have to think about it as much as you might want to. The simple haul, there was a lot of weathering at the end which I'm going to address later. You can see right there even though I don't have the water in the picture, I just added a couple lines which signify water and you know what, again going back to what your mind knows, boats are always on water so a couple of squeegelling lines is going to represent the water. So there's the first run and again, very plain. The one part I'm going to point out the most is if you look at the bow, the front of the boat on the left, that's quite an awkward shape. It's hard to even tell could be sitting on an iceberg or a tripod on an iceberg but I'm going to address that with more detail work. So here we go in the second phase. Now the one thing you can do with this is even though you can't do shading, what you can do is have different nib sizes. So for example, the very small details for, for example, line, fishing line, cracks and crevices, you can actually use a smaller nib with a finer point because if they are for example, fishing line, well you don't want it to stick out that much but you want to do give the impression that it is there. So there I am just doing the line work, adding the extra beams in again, I'm just looking at my picture and adding things that I missed the first time through some of the minor items but what's happening is it's really making this picture pop and it's coming more and more like a boat. Now here's the iceberg I was telling you about. Essentially if you looked at the picture it was a bunch of flat panel sheets that were riveted together to recreate this semi smoothed construct. So that's what I did to replicate it. The one thing here you can tell too is as I'm adding the cracks and crevices I'm making the planks a little bit deeper just by adding another line. Again I'm not shadowing though because normally what really helped there I think is if I put some shadowing in it. The windows, well we all know what windows are but wouldn't you really like to take something dark and blacken those out of it because that signifies that that is inside the window much like we see in many things. Adding on some drawing, some lines, some cords, again not thinking about this and having to create the images in my mind to put them on there this is actually from the live picture that I was taking this from. Adding a little bit more detail. I don't even know what some of these things are that I'm putting in there but I am just replicating what I see. There's the back tire. I don't know what those little clippy things are on the side. I don't know if that's an official word clippy things but I added them because they were there. Now here's the back of this boat was really weathered with rust and everything so those squiggly lines, what looks like maybe paint chips or something that's just a lot of the weathering. It was weird because in the picture the weathering wasn't at the front of the boat it was just strictly at the back so again that's why I just did the back. It's important to stay true to form when you're doing this process. So there's the final result. I was pretty happy with it. Again it kind of looks awkward much like Picasso's painting that I showed you earlier. What we're going to do now though is going to put a side by side and here it comes here. So you can see on the left is the original and on the right is the much more detailed drawing. I suppose you could stop at the first part and it would still be a boat in your mind but I wanted to take the extra time and put extra effort into getting the details to make the boat become a little bit better looking in terms of not only detail but often authenticity and I think when you add some elements it takes away from the awkwardness. So other than that I hope you have a great day. Please subscribe if you can. I hope to get more of these videos out. I've got a lot of neat things I've learned at school coming up and I hope you have a great day and take care of yourselves.