We call them stick men, but they are really stick people – simple shapes that could represent men or women.
You might think, “Oh no I used to draw them as a kid!” But that may well be as far as you ever got in your artistic career, so let’s pick up where you dropped off and work our way onwards and upwards!
The Index for this course is at: shooraynerdrawing.com/how-to-draw..
Click the picture to download a sheet to accompany this video with illustrations from the video and assignment instructions.
We don’t need no imagination
I saw a tweet yesterday that quite took my breath away. It was from Martin Daws, the Young People’s Laureate for Wales. The tweet was as follows:
“Year 7 Student today “we don’t need imagination, we’ve got phones and stuff”
I don’t need to explain what is so very wrong about that statement or why it is wrong on so many levels.
As Computers become more and more “clever” and take over more and more of the mundane, everyday tasks, imagination is all we will be left with to be able to compete and outwit other nations, cultures and even the machines themselves.
This Year 7 will probably end up with VR goggles and intravenous feeding tubes, their only purpose in life to be an audience for those who retain and make use of their imagination.
STEM and Academic qualifications will mean nothing in twenty years time. Imagination and free thinking will be king – assuming we are still allowed to think for ourselves. These are “interesting times”, as the Chinese curse puts it, and they are getting more “interesting” by the day.
How to draw BB8 from Star Wars VII – The Force Awakens
Are you excited for the new Star Wars Film, The Force Awakens? All those many years ago, when the first Star Wars film came out I went to see it with the lady who has been my wife for the last 26 years! Next week we have tickets booked to go and see episode seven – we must have seen all the others many times in the past.
I don’t suppose we ver imagined an episode seven all those years ago. I don’t suppose we imagined we would be watching it together either!
All those years ago I was thrilled by R2D2 and C3PO – now comes a new droid, BB8. How on earth does it work? This is a real thing not CGI – here is a great page with animations which explains the concept.
Enjoy the movie!
