Here we are with a suggestion for a fun drawing project. There’s two ways you can do it. You can just do it as a total design and we’ll talk about that as I’m actually working and you can also take the concept that I’m going to teach you and apply it in a new and different way where you combine watercolor and markers. We’re going to use Sharpies or you can use any kind of marker you want. I just happen to like Sharpies and you need a pencil a piece of paper. And what you’re going to do is you just going to start with a line that goes—a curvy line that kind a travels and all across the paper starts on one side and ends on the other side. And I’ll just take it right off the page. The curvier, you make the line the more interesting the designs going to be.
So there I’ve got my curvy line and everywhere where the line changes direction, I'm just going to put a little X. It doesn’t have to be perfect. You can actually put them wherever you want. It’s not an exact science. And let’s see, we’ll put one here, we’ll out one there, one here and there okay. Now those X’s will disappear at some point in time. Color is totally up to you. I personally like black so I’m just going to start and go over that original line I did with my Sharpie. Now I’m sure you’re wondering what the X’s are there for, okay. The X’s are there because after you finish this line, you are going to start very close to it and every time you see an X, you’re going to touch the original line. And then you’re going to go back out about a quarter of an inch but each time you come to that X, you want to touch. So you have to kind to watch where your X’s are. Now if you get too close, don’t worry about it because by the time you get finish you’ll never notice that you made any mistakes.
Now I’m going to start on the other side of my original line and do the same thing and touch where the X’s are. Just want to make sure that you’re actually touching and so we keep going. If you get too far you can always just stick in an extra line there because nobody is going to know whether it connected to one that’s already drawn or not. And then I’m going to come back and start on this side. Same thing just keep touching where the X’s are.
Now it come to a little kind of intersection here of the lines and what I’m going to do so I’m just going to skip over what’s already there and keep going. Now when I get to this one you stop and you continue where you left off and you just keep following because as you keep doing this you’re going to start running into all your lines and you don’t want to cross over them because then its going look really confusing. So what you do is you just stop here, skip and keep going and then start on this side and you want to keep all turning each time, switch back and forth. Otherwise the design gets stop heavy. And you just keep going and you are going to run into places and you just pretend that it was there okay and this one. And at some point it’s going to start to get really confusing. And you just do your best to keep going and then back to the other side and round.
The fun thing about this project is that you can do it in different colors depending on that first initial line that you draw that’s going to make a big difference to the design you get. Now let’s see that what if gone in here and come out up here and see how starts to get pretty confusing. Now we’re going to go here and then this one would continue here and now things are really getting confusing so I’m just going to pick up right here and keep going like this. I think I’ll finish off this inside part here though as long as we’re here, and now that we can’t even get to the center anymore, you just kind of finish off the outside. You’re just going to keep going until you run out of space. And then we have our line design and you can take this concept and apply it to—you could do a portrait with funny hair and go ahead and use watercolors, paint parts of the portrait you can paint—we painted f the eyes, the mouth, the earrings and the clothing and a little choker and just have fun with drawing.
Start by drawing a curvy line from one side of the paper to the other. Put a small X where the curvy line changes directions. You don’t have to be too exact. Draw over the pencil line with marker but not the X’s. Draw a line about a quarter of an inch away from the original line. Where there are X’s, you will want to touch the original line and then return back to your quarter inch spacing. When you reach the other end of the paper, repeat, starting on the other side of the original line. Fill the entire sheet or use this concept to do a portrait with really funky hair.
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