As you begin moving through the course I want you to keep in mind the two stage work flow of a rough
and a refund.
And what this really means is that you're letting go of all inhibitions and you are working roughly
you're being loose you're focusing on correctness and not prettiness and fundamentals and not in a stick
because you want to work on the rough and make sure the rough is solid first and then you can go in
and tidy and neat and clean things up.
So here is an example of a rough and refined workflow of a character called Cziko which I've drawn.
And you can see on the left hand it's pretty Don't Maisey pretty darn rough.
And on the right hand side we have the nice cleaned up lines with it cleaned up wirklich.
Now as you move through of course you will learn all the elements in order to do this type of refinement
and addition you will learn how to do this.
Stylisation but I want you to move forward without fear.
If you think about a kitchen when someone is cooking they do not cook neatly.
Right.
They're throwing ingredients around and they're throwing flavors around and they're messing up the kitchen
to get those ingredients in the mix get everything correct in the right quantities.
And then they bake the cake and then they ice the cake afterwards right.
Similarly with a building or construction site a construction that's a pretty dirty place.
These tools everywhere there's sand and dust and concrete and they're building the structure of the
building.
That is the rough stage.
And once the entire structure is done then they go in lay the grass and paint the building and put on
the facades and so on and so forth.
So I want you to always approach drawing with the rough and refined mind set.
Drawing is not like something you may see in a movie or an artist just you know produces this brilliant
piece of work instantly on a sketch pad out in the street in Paris.
Typically it's not really like that.
And even when it does seem to be like that the artist is always working from a foundational place a
rough place a structural place into a refined place.
So there's always a refined and refined rough and refined workflow occurring is always a rough and refined
work brokering and you can see a few more examples of the rough and refined workflow here in a Heda
drawing.
And then here just in some typical rough drawings as well these are very much rough very much loose.
And you can see the construction lines there.
And what heavy and on that note while you're moving forward doing this.
Feel free to be loose.
Use your arm your elbow and your shoulder to draw quick loose lines.
Don't be afraid to just keep resurfacing things in the rough stage.
Be rough.
Be Loose.
Be messy.
Don't worry so much about a stick.
I'm an artist.
I know that you guys are artists and I know what we worry about.
Don't worry about the acidic.
Don't worry about what things look like specially in the rough stage.
Focus on making sure that things are correct that your proportions are correct size your spacing and
your locations of elements are correct and your measurements are correct.
So be rough Be Loose be messy and work in the two stage workflow.
I'm really excited to get started so I'll see you guys in module one.