• Click the red square, below and to the right of the video, to download the Prism Pdf and cut out one of the triangles or you can just quickly cut one out of card with a pair of scissors. Use one of the triangles as a stencil. It’s not cheating! It’s just letting you get on with the job without having to think too hard!

    Now, try experimenting by drawing around the triangle to create two triangle drawings, then join up the corners to make new prism shapes.

    You should be able to draw them from above, underneath, from both sides, and make the prism appear to stand on end.

    Prism Task: Practice drawing triangles and prisms – hundreds of them if necessary! then try drawing them freehand.

    The index for this course is at http://www.shooraynerdrawing.com/..

  • The simplest shape is a dot. Two dots connect with a line, like we did in the first video. Now, add another dot and connect it to the original dots with two new lines. This will give us a triangle.

    This is simple geometry and a triangle is our most basic starter-shape.

    Now, draw another triangle alongside the first and then join up the corners.

    It makes a prism shape – If you can’t see it, then you haven’t developed your visual skills quite enough yet, but that’s what we are working on!

    Erase the “back”- hidden – lines and the prism becomes more obvious. Add a bit of shading and it becomes a 3D representation of a prism, which I hope you can see quite clearly now.

    Task: Keep drawing this simple prism method until you are really clear how it works.

    The index for this course is at http://www.shooraynerdrawing.com/..

    The aim of this course is to show you how complex drawings are really built out of very simple shapes.

  • A 3D, or three dimensional object, exists in three dimensions. How can we represent the object in only two dimensions. Two dimensions consist of height, or length, and width. With a little bit of trickery we can fool the eye into thinking there is a there is another dimension, depth.

    Depth can’t exist in two dimensions, but with use of light and shade and perspective, it is possible to make a hyper-realistic image that can be so convincing that you would want to reach out and touch it!

    This video will give you an introduction the the concept of drawing three dimensional representations on a two dimensional surface.

    The course index is here : http://www.shooraynerdrawing.com/everyoneindex/