Art fundamentals #1: Shapes and forms - How to Draw Anything! The Basics Part 1 Shapes: Narrated Step by Step

How to draw ANYTHING! From a bird, a bee, a flea, a tree, a horse or a house or anything else! The Basics Part 1 Using Shapes. 0:00 Introduction 4:25 Lesson begins: Basic shapes 7:18 Using a Newspaper or magazine 8:37 Drawing a bird 12:30 Drawing a straight sided mug 13:38 Drawing a tapered sided mug 16:00 Drawing a box with text on 19:54 More Newspaper doodling In this this short film I show you how I learned to draw anything from cartoons to complex race cars and motorcycles using basic shapes to construct the objects. After getting started with shapes drawing is just a lot of practice and do enjoy your drawing. There are links in the film to other youtube videos where you can see a complete drawing from start to finish of a racing car, Rob Austin's Audi A4 'Sherman' in the 2014 British Touring Car Championship: http://youtu.be/qxWjW2o3LRc And a cartoon from start to finish for an exhibition at the 2014 Isle of Man TT races of John McGuinness and Michael Dunlop: http://youtu.be/BI3VvHZ8BBk And here is the link to Part 2 of How to draw ANYTHING! The Basics Shading: http://youtu.be/VKJQI0_oeWQ Please subscribe to my Youtube Channel or follow me online or on Facebook or Twitter to see the art in progress. http://www.billyart.co.uk http://www.facebook.com/BillyArt http://www.twitter.com/BillyArtist @BillyArtist http://www.mugs4u.com/the-art-of-billy-97-c.asp