Simpleology 101: The Simple Science of Getting What You Want

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simple•ology® Great Teachers Series: Jacque Fresco on Drawing
Course Check List and Workbook
V1.0
Instructions:
Place a check √ inside each check box  as you complete each item.
Fill out each blank as you are asked to do so.
Pretty simple, huh?
Simple, but … You’re about to learn things that will change the way you view the
world forever.
Just like simple•ology® 101, this course has been carefully planned to ensure you
not only learn the material completely, but also integrate it into your life for
maximum impact.
Let’s get started!
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Day 1
Remember: Day 1 is the longest day - so it’s all downhill from here!
OK, let’s get started:
 Watch the Quick Start Video
 Print out the Course Check List (you’re looking at it right now)
 Print out the Drawing Virtuosity Book from the Printables tab.
 Print out the Drawing Memory Joggers from the Printables tab.
 Put your Virtuosity Book in a Binder
 Post your Memory Joggers Around Your House (by your computer, by
your bathroom mirror, etc.)
 Ensure that you have a pencil and paper ready for each lesson. You
may also want to have an eraser and an ink pen handy during these
lessons too.
 Watch the Lesson 1 Video
 Take the Lesson 1 Quiz
 Watch the Jacque Fresco Companion Video for this Lesson located in
the Companion Videos tab.
Important Note
The Companion Videos are an essential part of this course and
you must watch each one.
Watching Jacque use the illustration technique in action will
reinforce the concepts and greatly enhance your learning
experience. You will also find doing the drawing exercises in this
course much easier if you watch the Companion Video.
 Rate the following items on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being the highest):
Your ability to draw simple shapes and outlines
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Your ability to draw solid forms (cubes, spheres, etc.)
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Your ability to give shading or texture to your drawings
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Your ability to draw human faces
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Your overall confidence in your drawing ability
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 Write Your Answer to the Following Questions:
If you had a magic wand and you could wave it to get the best possible
outcome out of mastering the information in this course, what would that
outcome be?
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How would that outcome change your life for the better?
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 Do the Following Exercises:
Today, we’re going to practice drawing straight lines.
While this may seem like a very simple task, you’d be surprised how
few people can confidently draw a straight line, whether in a vertical,
horizontal or angular position, without using a ruler.
Straight lines form the basis of many more complex drawings and
shapes, so mastering drawing lines confidently will help you a great
deal later on.
1. Get your pencil and paper ready!
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2. Draw a series of vertical lines:
Try to keep the distance between each line even.
Tip 1: Jacque recommends drawing straight or curved lines
using small incremental lines. Doing this allows you to change
your mind about the direction as you go, making it much easier
to maintain the accuracy of your line or shape.
Tip 2: You can use the edge of your paper to help guide you
when drawing straight lines.
Tip 3:
a) For shorter strokes, swing and control the length of
the lines from your wrist.
b) For longer strokes, swing and control from your
elbow.
3. Draw a series of lines at an angle:
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4. Draw a series of horizontal lines:
5. Practicing drawing the letter T:
Avoid drawing the horizontal line at an angle:
Use the edges of your paper to help maintain
regularity.
Decoding objects into basic shapes:
When faced with complex objects or irregular shapes, first decode the
basic shapes it is made of E.g. triangles, squares, circles, ellipses,
pentagon, etc.
6. Decode the following images using basic shapes – the first picture
overleaf has been done to show you what you can do:
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7. Next, transfer the shapes onto a sheet of paper using your pencil, and
draw around the shapes to recreate the image:
Note: in the image itself, the rest of the legs are hidden by the long
grass. If you don’t wish to draw the long grass, then you can use the
information gained from the visible legs to draw the rest.
Also note that the shapes used here are not the “only” way to decode a
horse or this particular image. You also can be as detailed in your
decoding or as general as you like.
For example, rather than just drawing a straight rectangle to
represent a horse’s leg, you could decode the entire leg and ankle:
8. Now, choose an object in nature or in your home right now, decode
what basic shape/s it is made of, and practice drawing some more!
 Do your Daily Target Praxis.
 Read as Much as You Like from the Virtuosity Book
 Read Aloud as Much as You Like from the Virtuosity Book
 Listen to as Much of the Book on MP3 Audios as You Like
 Watch the Companion Video as Often as You Like.
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Day 2
 Watch the Jacque Fresco Companion Video for this Lesson
 Do the Following Exercises
Today we’re going to draw ellipses using Jacque Fresco’s technique. (An
ellipse is a circle see at an angle.)
1. Get your pencil and paper ready.
2. Using the technique you saw in the Lesson Video and the Jacque
Fresco Companion Video, practice drawing different kinds of ellipses.
Refer to your Virtuosity Book for step by step instructions.
Draw small ellipses ….
Fat ellipses …
Thin ellipses …
Tall ellipses …
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3. When you are comfortable drawing with ellipses of different sizes,
practice drawing actual objects using a perfect ellipse …
Try drawing a round cookie on a plate like in this illustration:
Tip:
The plate is an ellipse.
The cookies are ellipses.
The chocolate chips are ellipses.
Ellipses Are Everywhere
Have a look around your house and see how many objects there
are which use ellipses, such as CDs, clock faces, waste paper
baskets, pot plant holders, buttons, cups and glasses, etc.
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Day 3
 Do the Lesson 3 Exercise
1. Use a pencil and a ruler to find the Horizon Line and Vanishing Points
located in each of the following pictures.
The first one is done for you, so you understand what to do:
Horizon Line
Vanishing Point
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 Continue to practice drawing straight lines, decoding complex objects
using simple shapes, and drawing ellipses from the previous lessons. In
the coming lessons, you’ll start drawing in perspective, so all these
skills will come in very handy!
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Day 4
Do the Following Exercises:
Today you learnt how to use the Horizon Line and a single Vanishing Point
to draw 3D objects like a cube.
1. Get your pencil and paper ready. You may also find a ruler handy in
these exercises.
2. Using the techniques you learned today, draw a 3D box in one-point
perspective.
3. Keep drawing boxes of different sizes and shapes until you perfect
your technique. Try drawing tall boxes …
Fat boxes …
Long boxes …
4. Draw the same box in different relation to the Horizon Line and
Vanishing Point. Draw the box:
Below the Horizon Line …
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Above the Horizon Line …
4. Once you’ve got the hang of drawing solid boxes, try drawing hollow
boxes or glass boxes as per the examples below:
When we draw using one Vanishing Point, we refer to that as OnePoint Perspective. In later lessons we’ll learn to draw objects from an
angle using 2 Vanishing Points (“Two-Point Perspective”), but more
on that later …
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The Horizon Line and Vanishing Point concept can also be used to make
objects appear further away.
5. Study the picture below drawn by Jacque Fresco to see how he has
used the Horizon Line and Vanishing Point to draw various people as
though they are standing closer or further away from the viewer:
6. Consider the stick figure drawn below in relation to the Vanishing
Point provided. How large would you draw another stick figure if it
was located where the X is? Draw that stick figure over the X.
Vanishing Point
X
7. Practice drawing more figures in relation to the Horizon Line and
Vanishing Point so that they appear in varying distances from the
viewer – if you are not comfortable drawing people, a simple stick
figure is fine, as the point of this exercise is to become accustomed to
drawing shapes in perspective.
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8. Look at the picture below and study how Jacque has used the same
technique to make each ship appear further away from the viewer:
Vanishing Point
Horizon Line
While this may seem like a complex drawing at first, you can see even
here the artist has used the simple Vanishing Point as a reference for
all the lines in the drawing. From, the height of each mast, the
position of each sail, to the shape of the hull and the direction of the
waves.
In later lessons you will be applying this same concept to more
complex drawings. For now, just familiarize yourself with the way the
Horizon Line and Vanishing Points are used in illustration. As you
understand more about the laws of illustration, “how” to draw will
become less mysterious.
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Day 5
Today we showed you how to draw an aerial view of a city block using
one-point perspective. You’re now going to recreate that city block
yourself:
1. Get your pencil and paper ready. You may also find a ruler handy.
2. Put your paper in the landscape position and draw the following shapes
on your sheet. These will form the top of your city buildings:
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3. Put a dot in the middle of your city block to represent your Vanishing
Point.
4. Recreate the rest of the city block, ensuring that all the lines which
form the sides of your buildings go towards your Vanishing Point:
5. Draw in the base of the buildings and the pathways using the top of
each building (drawn in step 1) as a guide to form the horizontal and
verticals lines:
6. Add in your building details (windows, etc), ensuring all lines either go
toward the Vanishing Point, or correspond with the shape of the
building top.
7. Practice drawing this same picture over and over, until you feel fully
confident that you can do so without referring to this Checklist, the
Virtuosity Book or the Companion Video.
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Day 6
Do the Following Exercises
Today we learnt how to draw objects viewed from an angle by applying two
Vanishing Points (also referred to as Two-Point Perspective).
You’re going to practice drawing boxes in two-point perspective.
2. Draw a box using 2 Vanishing Points and a Horizon Line. (Refer to the
Virtuosity Book or the Companion Video if you’re unsure what to do.)
3. Practice drawing the box from different perspectives by varying the
relation of the box to the Horizon Line:
Above the Horizon Line …
Below the Horizon Line ....
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Placing the box below the Horizon Line will mean that viewers will
feel like they are looking downward on the box.
Conversely, if you place the box above the Horizon Line, viewers
will feel like they are looking upward at the box and see more of the
box’s underside.
4. Practice drawing several boxes on top of one another, all referring to
the same 2 vanishing points:
5. Consider the image below by Jacque Fresco and study how he has
drawn a stack of boxes to form an entire structure.
The top of the structure is above the Horizon line, so it looks like we are
looking up at the top.
The base of the structure is below the Horizon Line, so it looks like we
are looking down at the base:
Vanishing
Point 1
Line
Vanishing
Point 2
Horizon
Line
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6. Draw a single book just as you saw Jacque Fresco do today in the
Companion Video:
7. Next, draw a series of books stacked in different positions, using the
same 2 Vanishing Points, just as you saw Jacque Fresco do today in the
Companion Video:
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Day 7
Today we showed you how to draw the letters of the alphabet using a
2-point perspective box as a frame. You’re now going to practice
drawing letters of the alphabet.
Drawing letters of the alphabet using the 2-point perspective
technique will familiarize you with drawing all kinds of shapes when
viewed from an angle. You will soon be able to apply the same
technique in more complex drawings, such as chairs, tables, furniture,
buildings and many other kinds of configurations.
2. Draw the letter E in a lying down position, as shown today in the
Lesson Video and Virtuosity Book. You can erase out the lines you
don’t need at the end:
Lines erased:
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3. Use Jacque Fresco’s video as a guide to practice drawing more letters,
this time in the upright vertical position:
Letter A …
Letter C …
Letter S …
Letter H …
Letter M …
Tip: Don’t forget to start with the box frame that will house
your letters.
4. Practice drawing ALL the letters of the alphabet in two-point
perspective, both lying down (as demonstrated by example Letter E)
and in the vertical position (as demonstrated by example Letter A).
This is something you can return to at any time. Each day, simply pick
a different letter of the alphabet. Continue to practice each letter until
you a fully confident of the shape and technique.
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Day 8
 Write What You Learned
Today we showed you how to use the 2-point perspective technique to
draw a table. The same technique was applied to other furniture such as
simple chairs and a dresser.
You’re now going to practice drawing furniture in two-point perspective:
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Get your pencil and paper ready …
Tables
2. Using the Horizon Line and 2 Vanishing Points, draw a table. You
may refer to your Virtuosity Book for step-by-step instructions.
Tip 1: Jacque recommends that you start by drawing a 2point perspective box that you think a table would fit in.
(For a reminder on how to draw a two-point perspective box,
refer to Lesson 6 again.)
Tip 2: Don’t forget, make sure your lines run to either the
right or left vanishing point. If you follow that simple rule,
your picture will remain in perspective.
3. Practice drawing tables of varying sizes:
You can draw:
Short tables …
Tall tables …
Long tables …
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Narrow tables …
4. Just as you did on Day 6 when you practiced drawing boxes, now
draw your table from different perspectives by varying the relation
of the table to the Horizon Line:
(a) Looking on down on the table (table is positioned below the
Horizon Line) …
(b) Looking up at the table (table is positioned above the Horizon
Line) …
5. Keep practicing until you are fully confident with the technique of
drawing tables.
6. Once you’ve mastered drawing tables, let’s move on to drawing
simple chairs. Jacque Fresco video provides a great step-by-step
guide on how to draw chairs.
Tip 3: To start with, stick with drawing chairs using straight lines
and box shapes (see examples below). When you start to become
more confident, you can start to draw more complex chairs using
curved lines, shapes, and even add decorative detail.
An example of a simple chair drawn by Jacque Fresco in 2-point
perspective:
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Example 2:
7. Practice drawing chairs of varying sizes:
You can draw:
Short chairs …
Tall chairs …
Wide chairs …
8. Practice drawing your chair from different perspectives:
(a) Looking down on the chair (chair is positioned below the
Horizon Line) …
(b) Looking up at the chair (table is positioned below the Horizon
Line) …
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Day 9
Do the Following Exercises:
In the lessons so far we’ve been focusing on drawing squares and box
shapes in either one or two-point perspective.
Today you learned that you can use two-point perspective boxes to gain
control over irregular shapes, such as boats, eyeglasses, calculators and
even cars!
You’re now going to practice drawing some irregular shapes using this
method.
1. Get your pencil and paper ready …
2. Draw a row boat, just as you saw in today’s Lesson Video and
Companion Video. You can use the step by step instructions shown in
the Virtuosity Book as reference.
Tip 1: Start by drawing the kind of box the irregular shape (in this case,
the rowboat) would fit into:
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Tip 2: Your first attempts at this may not be entirely satisfactory.
Always remember that even experienced artists create many drafts of
the same drawing before they settle on the one they are happy to
present.
With practice and careful study of the laws of illustration provided in
this course, you will begin to render more realistic and accurate results.
3. Continue to practice drawing the rowboat until you can do so without
referring to the Virtuosity Book or the Companion Videos.
4. The two-point perspective box technique can be applied to all kinds of
irregular shapes. Study the images below to see how Jacque has used a
two-point perspective box to form more complex drawings using
irregular shapes:
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Tip 3: Your ability to render a realistic or accurate drawing of an
object will depend on your knowledge of that object.
For example, most of us would be reasonably familiar with what a
table looks like and can imagine a table pretty accurately without
referring to one.
However, fewer of us would be familiar with what a car looks like or a
horse. Our ability to draw these objects would be limited, not by our
ability, but by our familiarity with the details that make up these
objects.
If you’re unfamiliar with what an object looks like, always refer to the
object itself, or have an image of that object as reference to work
from.
Over time, and with practice, you will become more familiar with the
details, shapes, lines and proportions that make up the objects
around you, and therefore will be able to draw more objects, or
imagine more objects, with greater ease.
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Day 10
In Lesson 2 you learned how to draw ellipses. Today we expanded on that
technique to draw cylinders. We saw how to draw cylinders using 2
different methods:
1. The first method used perpendicular lines.
2. The second method draws the cylinder using a two-point perspective
box.
What’s the difference between these methods?
The top ellipse of a cylinder (this is the ellipse we can see in full
detail) is always thinner in width compared to the bottom ellipse.
In method 1, we simply “guess” at how much thinner the top ellipse
should be.
In method 2, we use the proportions of our box to tell us exactly the
difference in width between the top and bottom ellipses.
Why the difference in width?
The top and bottom ellipses will vary in width according to where the
Horizon Line is located in relation to the cylinder.
For example, if we were to look down on a tin can, (meaning the
Horizon Line is above the cylinder) the top ellipse - the ellipse we can
see - will be slightly thinner than the bottom ellipse.
Conversely, if we were to look up at a tin can (meaning the Horizon
Line is situated below the cylinder), this time the bottom ellipse is the
ellipse we can see – and so the bottom ellipse will be slightly thinner
than the top ellipse.
See the example overleaf.
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Method 1 – using perpendicular lines
2. Drawing a cylinder using Method 1 (perpendicular lines, as you saw in
today’s Lesson Video). You can use the step by step instructions inside
the Virtuosity Book for reference:
“Center Line”
Tip: the ellipse is always at right angles to the center line.
3. Draw the same cylinder using Method 1 from several different angles.
You can vary the angle simply by changing the angle of your center line.
4. Draw a cylinder using Method 2 (start with a two-point perspective box
drawn below the Horizon Line) as you saw in today’s Video Lesson.
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You can use the step by step instructions inside your Virtuosity Book
for reference.
5. Draw the same cylinder using Method 2, but this time position it above
the Horizon Line.
 Do your Daily Target Praxis
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Day 11
Today you will use ellipses to draw realistic looking flowers, just as you
saw in the Lesson Video and the Companion Video.
2. Complete the drawing of flowers below using the step by step method
shown in the Virtuosity Book and today’s Companion Video by Jacque
Fresco:
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Tip 1: Start by drawing an ellipse at a right angle to the stem.
3. Next, draw your own stems (you may draw as many as you like), and
draw more flowers using this same technique. Continue to do this until
you feel fully confident that you can do so without referring to the
Virtuosity Book.
Tip 2: Your first attempts may not turn out exactly as you like,
but if you continue to practice, using the step by step
instructions and the techniques shown in this course, you will
begin to render pictures with more confidence and the results
will be become more satisfying.
 Do your Daily Target Praxis
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Day 12
 Do the Lesson 12 Exercise
Today you learned the basic principles of shading. Shading your images
will give them depth and help bring them to life.
1. Get your pencil ready.
2. Using your drawing pencil, shade the series of squares below from light
to dark (left to right). Practice increasing the pressure on your pencil
as you move from light to dark:
3. Shade the square below from dark to a lighter shade (left to right
again). Practice decreasing the pressure on your pencil as you move
from dark to light:
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Tip 1: When shading the inside of a vessel or any object, Jacque
Fresco recommends, “Where the outside is light the inside is dark,
and where the outside is dark the inside is light. This will help bring
out the shape and form of the object.”
4. Study the shading in the picture below drawn by Jacque Fresco which
demonstrates where the outside of the vase is light the inside shading
becomes dark, and vice versa:
Light
Dark
Light
Dark
5. Shade the vase below following the principles you have learned in
today’s lesson:
6. Draw your own vase using your knowledge of ellipses and shade according to the
principles learned above.
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Today you saw how Jacque Fresco used a color wheel to shade round
objects like a cylinder or a vase:
7. Shade the vase below using Jacque Fresco’s color wheel method:
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Day 13
Today you saw how to draw shadows cast by objects.
2. Draw a simple cube in two-point perspective. (Refer to Lesson 6 for
more information on drawing two-point perspective cubes.)
3. Next, determine a source of light as shown in the Lesson Video and
Companion Video. For example:
4. Shade each side of your cube according to the light source.
Tip: The top of your cube has the most exposure to light, so will be
the lightest.
The side facing away from your light source will be the darkest.
To shade the dark side, start with greater pressure on your pencil at
the top and gradually decrease the pressure going down. This will
mean the top of your cube will be darker, and get lighter towards the
base.
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5. Create the shadow of your cube by extending the lines from the light
source, and forming the shadow beyond the cube. Then, color your
shadow, starting with greater pressure at the base and decreasing as
you reach the top.
Your final drawing will look something like this:
Remember the law of shading for bringing out the depth of your
object?
Where it is dark, shade light, and where it is light, shade dark.
Note in the above image how the base of the cube which meets the
shadow is light, where the base of the shadow is dark.
6. Below is a drawing of a sphere with a light source. Shade the sphere
according to the principles you learned for shading spheres in today’s
lesson:
Light Source
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7. Add the sphere’s shadow to the drawing above.
Example:
8. Continue to practice drawing and shading spheres and boxes by
varying the position of your light source.
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Day 14
Today you saw how to use a simple cross as a starting point to work out
the proportions of drawing faces.
1. Get your pencil ready ...
Using the letter T below as your foundation, complete the picture
below by drawing the facial features. Keep in mind the facial
proportions you’ve just learned, and refer to your Virtuosity Book if
you get stuck:
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Remember, when you first start, your drawings may not look as you
would like, but if you follow the proportions shown in the
Companion Video for facial features, and continue to practice, you
will soon be able to render some very convincing faces!
2. Get your pencil and paper now.
3. Draw your own T shape. Then draw the facial features on that T
Shape.
4. Draw the shape of the face around the facial features using the
proportions for the chin, sides of the face and ears as shown by
Jacque Fresco.
5. Once you’ve mastered the basics, experiment with different facial
features (almond shaped eyes, round eyes, large eyes, small eyes,
long nose, plump lips, wide mouth, etc)…
6. Experiment with different face shapes: angular, wide, thin, long,
short…
7. If you have only drawn male faces so far, try drawing a female face.
Note that the shape of the face in particular will be smaller, with a
less angular chin:
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8. If you have only been drawing female faces so far, try drawing a
male face. Note that the shape of the face will be wider and more
angular.
9. Study the faces of men and women, young and old, and also
children. Observe what qualities in the features make the faces
different, from the shape of the chin and jaw, to the lips and
eyebrows, the lines on the face, the hairline, etc.
10. Study the faces of people from different cultures and observe the
qualities in facial features that differentiate people of various races.
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Day 15
 Do the Lesson 15 Experiment
Do the Following Exercises.
1. Get your pencil and paper ready…
2. Draw a one-point perspective box on your piece of paper, below the
Horizon Line.
(Make the box big enough so you’ll have lots of space to draw your
face.)
3. On the front of the box, draw a face facing forward, using the
proportions you have learned in previous lessons:
4. Next, draw a 2-point perspective box:
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5. On the right side, draw the facial features, using the same
proportions and laws for drawing faces – this time however, make
sure all the lines go to the right vanishing point.
6. Next, on the left side of the box, draw the side of the head and ear,
making sure all the lines go toward the left vanishing point.
Your picture should look something like this:
Remember, the first time you do this, your results may not be as you
expect, but with practice and careful observation of the laws for drawing
faces, you’ll quickly improve!
7. Next, draw the same box, but this time draw your facial features on
the left side of the box, with all the lines going to the left vanishing
point.
8. Keep using different sides of the box and trying every angle you can
think of, both above and below the Horizon Line:
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Day 16
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 Compare your results with Day 1.
 Visit the MarkJoyner.name Discussion Community
Go to the “Success Stories” board and start a thread with the following
subject: “I’m a Drawing Master!”
http://www.markjoyner.name/forums
 Continue to practice any of the drawing techniques you have learned
on this course so far.
 Promise yourself to continue the next 16 days. In the remainder of
this checklist, the exercises will increase in complexity, developing your
knowledge of, and ability to use, the laws of illustration.
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Day 17
 Do the following exercises:
1. Using the edges of your paper as a guide, draw a margin around your
paper without using a ruler:
2. Divide the paper into quarters by drawing straight lines. Check the
margins to make sure that they are parallel:
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3. Keep dividing each section into quarters:
4. Finally, draw intersecting lines at an angle inside each box:
Using straight lines to form basic shapes:
5. Using the straight line methods you’ve mastered in this course, draw
the following shapes without using your ruler:
A square
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A rectangle
A triangle
Using incremental lines to draw curves:
6. Just as Jacque Fresco did in the Companion Video, draw a circle using
incremental lines to maintain the regularity of the shape.
7. Keep practicing drawing circles of different sizes until you are fully
confident you can draw near-perfect circles.
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Day 18
 Practice Drawing Using the Principles You’ve Learned in this Lesson:
1. Practice drawing ellipses in different proportions:
Fat ellipses …
thin ellipses …
big ellipses …
small ellipses…
2. Change the angle of your ellipse by altering the angle of your initial
construction lines.
Construction Lines
3. If you have been using your ruler to determine the construction
lines for your ellipse, draw your construction lines without using
your ruler, utilizing your skills learned in the previous lesson:
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Day 19
 Watch the Bonus Video titled Drawing Cityscapes
1. Using the principles outlined in Lesson 3 and in the bonus video titled
Drawing Cityscapes, draw a simple street scene using a Horizon Line
situated halfway down your page, and a single Vanishing Point placed
at the center of your Horizon Line:
Example:
Vanishing
Point
Horizon
Line
2. Draw the same image, but time this change the position of your
Vanishing Point along your Horizon Line.
Note how the new position of the Vanishing Point changes the
appearance of your drawing.
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 Watch the Bonus Video titled Drawing Cityscapes as Often as You
Like.
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Day 20
 Watch the Bonus Video titled Rendering Landscapes
 Do the following Exercises:
1. In today’s Companion Video, you saw Jacque Fresco draw telephone
poles going into the distance using the same concept. He showed you
how to work out the distance between the telephone poles. Recreate
that picture now.
In the bonus video titled Rendering Landscapes we saw Jacque Fresco
draw a beach scene using one point perspective:
The landscape drawing utilizes the same principles learned in today’s
Lesson and Companion Videos, but takes these laws a step further. Let’s
see how Jacque created this landscape drawing and how well we can
replicate it:
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2. Draw the shape of your beach scene using one-point perspective:
Vanishing
Point
Horizon
Line
3. Complete the outline for the palm trees and other plant life – note
how each tree gets smaller and closer together according to its
relation to the Horizon Line and Vanishing Point:
4. Add detail to your palm trees and plant life according to the
techniques shown by Jacque Fresco – remember, your first
attempts at this may not look much like what you want, but if you
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continue to practice using the same techniques, you will begin to
render more realistic results:
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 Watch the Bonus Video titled Rendering Landscapes as Often as You
Like.
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Day 21
 Do the following exercise
2. Imagine a block in your city. Draw the aerial view of this block using
the principles you’ve learned in this lesson.
If you wish to refer to a photograph, you can obtain aerial views or
photographs of your city by searching the Net or using tools such as
Google Maps. Sometimes identifying the Vanishing Point in
photographs can be difficult, so if you’re finding this too challenging,
simply draw an aerial view of an “imaginary” city, just like you did on
Day 5.
This time however, increase the complexity of your building shapes,
and add more streets and buildings to increase the challenge for
yourself:
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3. Draw an aerial view of the objects around you – what would the objects
on your computer desk look like when viewed directly from above? You
can apply exactly the same principles here. To start with, select simple
shapes and objects, such as books and cups, until you become more
familiar with the technique.
When you first start applying these concepts to the objects around
you, you may find identifying and applying the laws of illustration
challenging. However, the more you practice, you’ll start identifying
those laws more readily and thus drawing them will become easier.
You will soon alter the way you observe the world!
 Practice Drawing Using the Principles You’ve Learned in this Lesson.
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Day 22
 Watch the bonus video titled Drawing Extensions and Exploded
Views
1. Get your pencil and paper ready
Remember this image from Day 6? In the Bonus Video titled Drawing
Extensions and Exploded Views, you saw Jacque Fresco draw this image:
2. Recreate the above picture (or you can choose to draw a structure of
your own) by drawing boxes of varying sizes on top of one another,
using the same two Vanishing Points, with your Horizon Line located
in the middle of your page.
3. Utilizing the same principles again, draw a street scene using two-point
perspective, as shown in the example overleaf:
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Multiple vanishing points:
4. Using the principles you’ve learned in today’s Companion Video, draw
a pile of books viewed from an angle, similar to this example:
Note the difference in this pile of books from the one you drew back
on Day 6 – this pile of books uses different vanishing points as a
reference for the position of each book. Refer to the Companion Video
if you are unsure what to do.
5. In the Bonus Video titled Drawing Extensions and Exploded Views,
Jacque Fresco shows us how to expand the 2-point perspective to
create box structures he calls “extensions”. Study the extension images
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below. Can you figure out where the left and right Vanishing Points are,
and the Horizon Line?
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6. Draw some of your own extension images. You can recreate the images
above, or create your own.
 Watch the Bonus Videos as Often as You Like.
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Day 23
 Watch the bonus video titled Drawing Extensions and Exploded
Views again
On Day 7, you learned how to draw letters of the alphabet using 2 point
perspective. You were instructed to practice drawing all letters of the
alphabet in a horizontal position and in an upright vertical position.
2. Draw all the letters of your name using the box in the upright
vertical position.
3. Next draw all the letters of your name using the box in the lying
down horizontal position.
This next exercise is going to expand on the same concept to draw
“explosions” of the type drawn here by Jacque Fresco:
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4. Draw a hollow block square (or “O” shape) in two-point perspective
and below the Horizon Line, as show here:
5. Extend the lines from your Vanishing Points and your first block
square to draw a second block square beyond your first. This is your
first “explosion”:
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6. Continue to draw more block squares, either closer to or further
away from the Vanishing Points. Continue to add more block
squares until your picture looks something like this:
 Watch the Bonus Video as Often as You Like.
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Day 24
 Do the following exercise
Dressers
On Day 8 you mastered drawing a table and a simple chair. You can
now apply the same techniques to other furniture. In the
Companion Video, you saw Jacque Fresco draw a dresser. Draw a
basic dresser using two-point perspective. Take note of the
techniques Jacque explains in the video.
2. Practice drawing dressers in varying sizes.
Short dressers …
Long dressers …
Tall dressers …
3. Practice drawing your dresser from different perspectives by
varying the relation of the dresser to the Horizon Line:
Looking down at the dresser …
Looking up at the dresser …
Looking at the dresser from the opposite angle (that is, if you have
been drawing the dresser looking at its right side, change your
Vanishing Point and draw the dresser looking at its left side) …
4. Using the same principles you’ve learned so far, draw a table in
one-point perspective.
5. Now utilize your knowledge of ellipses and drawing cylinders to add
plates and glasses:
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(Refer to the Companion Video and watch Jacque Fresco complete this
picture if you’re unsure what to do.)
6. Try your hand at drawing a piece of furniture in your own house. To
start with, pick a simple object, and as you become more familiar with
applying the concepts learned to the objects around you, start tackling
more complex shapes.
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Day 25
 Watch the Bonus Video titled Rendering Curved and Irregular
Surfaces
 Do the following exercises:
Recap: You can use two-point perspective boxes to gain control over
irregular shapes, such as boats, eyeglasses, calculators and even cars!
To start, you simply draw the kind of box you think the irregular shape
would fit into.
You’re now going to practice drawing more irregular shapes using this
method.
2. Draw a pair of eyeglasses, as you saw in today’s Companion Video:
a. Start by drawing the kind of box you think your glasses would fit
into…
b. draw the lens on the right side...
c. then the left lens…
d. then the nose bridge….
e. add the extensions for the ear…
f. add depth to your lens boxes…
Your glasses so far should look something like this:
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3. Finally, draw the curvature of the eyeglass inside the lens boxes, as you
saw Jacque do inside the Companion Video. You use the corners of
each lens box to determine the angle of the lens:
4. Round out the corners and darken the outline of your glasses to give
them a more realistic appearance:
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5. Continue to practice drawing eyeglasses until you can do so without
referring to this checklist or the Companion Videos.
More irregular shapes:
In the Bonus Video titled Rendering Curved and Irregular Surfaces,
you saw Jacque Fresco draw lettering on a book, tin can and a
newspaper, utilizing the 2 Vanishing Points.
6. Draw a book viewed from an angle, and complete the title as you saw
Jacque Fresco do in the bonus video (you may choose to call the book
whatever you like). Your final result will look something like this:
7. Practice drawing 3D boxes using 2-point perspective and draw any
letter of the alphabet on each side of the box, as seen in the Bonus
Video titled Rendering Curved and Irregular Surfaces and shown the
example below. Practice the same using all the letters of the alphabet:
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 Watch the Bonus Video titled Rendering Curved and Irregular
Surfaces as Often as You Like.
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Day 26
 If you didn’t watch the Bonus Video yesterday titled Rendering Curved
and Irregular Surfaces watch it now.
2. Using the principles you’ve learned in this lesson, replicate the
following image using 2 Vanishing Points:
3. Next, combining the techniques you learned yesterday in the Bonus
Video titled Rendering Curved and Irregular Surfaces, draw a can
with the following labels:
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


Tuna …
Dog Food …
Tomatoes …
Baked Beans.
Example overleaf:
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4. Once you feel confident drawing the cylindrical shape, now use the
same techniques to draw actual objects in your house which use the
cylinder shape, such as glasses, pot plant holders, coffee cups …
Example:
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Day 27
 Do the Following Exercise
2. Using the principles you’ve learned about drawing flowers in this
lesson, draw the flowers inside the following photograph:
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Day 28
2. Take any drawing that you have drawn on this course to date,
whether it be explosion squares, flowers, cylinders, boats, etc.
Identify your light source and shade your drawing according to that
light source.
3. Jacque teaches us that we can use shading to represent distance in
objects. Varying the tone from dark to light or light to dark, is a
good method of creating distance.
Study the image below to see how Jacque has shaded this picture to
create distance. Note the contrast from dark to medium to light as it
fades into the distance:
Light
Medium
Dark
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Day 29
2. Draw an apple. Then decide the location of your light source.
3. Now give your apple highlights and shadow.
4. Do this several times, placing your light source in different
locations.
Tip: an apple is essentially a sphere shape, so you can apply the same
shading and shadow techniques to your apple as you saw for the
sphere in the Lesson Video and Companion Video.
 Watch the Companion Video as Often as You Like
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Day 30
 Watch the Bonus Video titled How To Draw Eyes and Eyebrows To
Show Different Facial Expressions
2. Draw a face using the proportion and shading techniques you have
learned so far from the Jacque Fresco Companion Video and the
video lesson.
3. Practice drawing eyes and eyebrows to show different facial
expressions as shown in the Bonus Video titled How To Draw Eyes
and Eyebrows To Show Different Facial Expressions.
4. Redraw the face from Step 1, but this time alter the expression of
the face using the techniques practiced in Step 2.
5. Apply what you know of drawing faces and draw the following face
using the principles you have learned:
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6. Continue to practice drawing faces of all types and using different
expressions.
 Watch the Bonus Video titled How To Draw Eyes and Eyebrows To
Show Different Facial Expressions as Often as You Like.
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Day 31
2. Choose a face from your drawings in Day 30’s exercise.
3. Draw this face using several different angles both above and below
the Horizon Line.
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Day 32
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 Compare your results to days 1 and 16.
 Watch the rest of your Bonus Videos and continue practicing the new
techniques.
 Congratulate yourself – you’re finished!
And Congratulations from me!
Mark Joyner
Founder of simple•ology®
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Simpleology 101: The Simple Science of Getting What You Want

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