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Drawing Study No. 9: Shell

Learn how your 5-Pencil Method drawing skills apply to a real subject

Discover tips and tricks you can use for drawing patterns with dimension, the thickness of a surface, textures, the illusion of depth, and much more—in a drawing lesson on a natural beauty.
  • How to conquer the challenge of drawing objects with interesting patterns
  • How to construct believable shadows
  • Ways to capture the beautiful contours and textures of objects found in nature
  • Where to use a brush and a Q-tip—and where not to
  • Where to reflect brighter highlights
  • How to establish realistic-looking indentations and recessed areas
  • Tips for constantly suggesting depth and dimension
  • Where it’s important to create subtle variations in your values
  • How clean edges will transform your drawing
  • Tricks that you can apply to other subjects
  • Construct an image that makes people feel good when they see it
  • Have fun drawing a treasured keepsake

Choose your version...

Highlights

Running time 28 minutes
Includes...
  • The Highlights version showing the main points of the "shading" portion of the lesson.

Extended + Highlights

Running time 126 minutes with bonus
Includes...
  • A 25-minute demonstration showing the "straightedge and divider" layout method in depth
  • Extended version showing how Darrel builds the shading
  • The 28-minute Highlights version of the lesson
  • An 18-minute bonus lesson on the "Shell #3" option from the survey—how to show the thickness of a surface and capture nuanced dimension in light areas and short distances
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Which version fits you?

Highlights

If you would like a quick 28-minute overview that gives you the highlights of the most important parts, and you aren’t interested in the bonus or the demonstration on the “straightedge and divider” layout method, the Highlights version may be for you. The main points Darrel covers in “Drawing Study No. 9” have been put into a concise lesson so you can quickly digest the most important parts of the lesson without having to watch the more extended drawing process.

Extended + Highlights

If you would like to have the chance to watch the full process and see the values build—the drawing taking shape stroke-by-stroke—you need the extended version.

But you get more than just an "extended" lesson: you also get a bonus lesson on the "Option #3" shell from the survey. So if you were one of the many people who said you'd really like to see a lesson on both, you can do just that.

Plus, the extended version starts with a 25-minute lesson showing you how to use the straightedge and divider layout method—a part that’s not included with the “Highlight” version.

And even better... you don’t have to choose which version you’d rather see. Because the Highlights version is included when you purchase the Extended version.

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