100 Days of Drawing (Week 5)

How to Use These Posts

There are a number of valuable ways to use these posts:

1. Read no further than the title and just DRAW.
2. Scroll through the images and DRAW one that appeals to you.
3. Scroll through the images, pick one that you want to learn to draw, click one of the ‘How-To’ links, and DRAW.
4. Read the blurb, click on a ‘How-To’ link, and DRAW each of the 100 drawings

These posts are only valuable if they influence you to DRAW.

This Week’s Drawings

This week we’ll draw flags, scrolls, cups, and volcanoes that all use the cylinder as their foundation. 

Using straight lines, we’ll draw pyramids. 

Continuing our manga/cartoon plan, we’ll draw cartoon hands and feet. We’ll round off the week with a color theory segment on secondary colors.

• Day 31: pyramids
• Day 32: rippling flags
• Day 33: the scroll
• Day 34: volcanoes, craters, and a cup of coffee
• Day 35: the cartoon hand
• Day 36: the cartoon foot
• Day 37: secondary colors

Materials:

• pencil
• eraser
• paper (printer paper, notebook, etc)
• colors (colored pencils, crayons, watercolor, etc)
• alternatives to the above: smart phone or tablet drawing app

Day 31: pyramids

Mark show you how to draw a pyramid in Lesson 19 of You can draw in 30 days. 

I used perspective (a concept that Mark covers in later lessons) to draw 4 pyramids.

In his YouTube, Let's draw some floating pyramids: Day 19, Mark shows you how to draw multiple views of a pyramid.

Day 32: rippling flags.

Using what you've learned drawing cylinders, Mark leads you through a process of drawing a rippling flag.  He notes that doing this drawing uses the following tools to create the illusion of three dimensions:

• Foreshortening
• Overlapping
• Size
• Shading
• Placement

His step-by-step lesson starts on page 143 of You can draw in 30 days. Here is Mark's YouTube of drawing: Foreshortened Flapping Flags: Day 17

Day 33: the scroll

The scroll is also made using the skills you learned making cylinders.  Mark's 5 step guidance begins on page 149 of You can draw in 30 days.  Let's Draw a Flying Carpet and More Scrolls: Day 18 is Mark's YouTube that includes scrolls.

Day 34: volcanoes, craters, and a cup of coffee

We're back to using cylinders to create our 3D objects.  In this case you'll be making cups or volcanoes or both. Mark instructions begin on page 157 of You can draw in 30 days.  Here is his YouTube: Let's draw a cool coffee mug: Day 20

Day 35: the hand

Hands are marvelous.  They are part of the Dynamic Duo: Hand and Eye. Training the Dynamic Duo to work with your imagination is our goal!

Hands are difficult to draw, but Proko takes us through his method for drawing hands from your IMAGINATION (13 minutes, 430K views). And since one of the best parts about drawing is cartoons, Proko shows us how to draw mickey mouse hands, cartoon hands, and comic hands in his video: How to Draw Cartoon Hands (12 minutes, 3M views).

The thing to do is just draw.  To get you started I did a selection of Mickey Mouse hands and cartoon hands. 

Day 36: the foot

To get us started, How to Draw Feet and Shoes - Cartooning 101 by BeeJayDeL teaches us to draw 5 pair of cartoon feet.

Here is a video showing how to draw 12 views of the foot: How to Draw Cartoon Feet by All Sketch Art Tutorials (9 minutes, 4.7K views)

Day 37: secondary colors

Mixing the primary colors produces the secondary colors:

• Red + Yellow => Orange
• Yellow + Blue => Green 
• Blue + Red => Purple

Make a drawing and color it using the secondary colors. Here is an example drawing based on the title of a 1958 song by Sheb Wooley. Sometimes a song or a poem can be just the inspiration you need to DRAW.

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