![]() ![]() Right? That sense of the undulation of the line happens all over and you really want to change the line quality when you can. See what that does, it starts to kind of bring me around. And as it comes forward it may lighten, and as it goes back again it could darken. And the other piece of this that's important, again remembering your line quality because if I get rid of this part for now, and I imagine that when the line wraps around the egg and goes around the other side my line might darken. And it could take a few tries to kind of imagine what happens there, but then you start to think "oh" it has dimension, three dimensionality. To that band as it wrapped around the other side. Thinking that this band wraps around the egg, and then if I think about a see-through egg, and you can try this if you want. We can remember our ellipses? Remember the practice we did with our ellipses? I'm remembering ellipses, an ellipse can do that, but what happens when that ellipse wraps around an egg? I'm thinking if this egg is pivoted away from me a little bit, I can think about wrapping a line around the egg, and just really imagining how, and you don't have to imagine it because you'll actually have a band around your egg that you can draw. What about the cross contour line? We think about wrapping a line around the egg to help show the dimension. Just trying to kind of help it find its shape but for the most part if you just draw a basic oval in the general shape of your egg that you get, it's really fine. Like how far back does the egg go this way, how high is it this way, how far down in space, how far out in space. Eggs have actually a lot of different shapes and sizes, but sometimes what I'll do is I'll sort of initially think about the high points of the curves, kind of work with almost a little bit more of a straight line quality. whatever perfect is, I really don't know what that is. You know, for our purposes it honestly doesn't have to be. So you have a basic egg shape, and you know, sometimes even drawing an egg itself, just an outline of an egg can be challenging. And then I'm gonna pass out some eggs and we're gonna put some little bands around them, and then you're just gonna try it from different angles and see how it feels, okay? So here I have a basic egg, I'm gonna just reiterate these ideas on top of this a little bit more darkly. And then it goes immediately from an outline to something 3D which is really really cool, alright? So let's try it, I'm gonna just do it here briefly so you can kind of observe how I might move into it. And that's, in a really simple way, anything that has an egg shape, whether it's a bicep, or an egg, or an apple, or lemon, whatever it may be, you can practice wrapping lines around it to help its dimensionality. And then these cross-contour, they're going around the contour of the object is really what we're gonna practice. ![]() (giggles) So you get to see the lines wrapping around, it's really tangible. We're imagining these lines wrapping around the egg, and you're gonna get an egg with a little hair band around it. Right, so it's pivoted away from us and we're imagining all the way around in a sculptural way. Then we might imagine the egg turned away from us in space a little bit, and maybe a line wrapped around it, if it was see-through you could see through the other side. Yeah, but that's fast and that looks easy, but (sighs) right? So how would we do that, let's figure that out. So let's take a look at how that might look. So if we can sort of trace that line, that can help us draw it with dimension. (participants laugh) So this idea of drawing the egg and then imagining an ellipse that goes around the egg, alright? Like imagining a line that wraps around the egg, if you could see it go all the way around, our see-through egg, that would be an ellipse. Alright, it's a nice looking egg isn't it? Yeah. ![]() But I'm just gonna go ahead here and I'm going to work with drawing this egg. (giggles) So at home you can grab an egg from the fridge, you can try this. So I'm gonna demo it here for a second then I'm actually gonna give you all eggs, alright? And they're still warm because they hardboiled them so it's kind of nice if you're chilly. But how would that apply to, let's say, drawing an egg? An egg is an egg, right? An egg is an egg when it's an outline of an egg. So an ellipse is an ellipse, it's like an opening, it's a curve. So, from ellipses, we can start to talk a little bit more about cross contour. Drawing Eggs and Cylinders With Dimension ![]()
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