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[BELL RINGING]

TEACHER

Anything else? Any other ideas why it might have scales? And--

STUDENT

Is it something to do with the shedding?

TEACHER

Well, not really. They do shed their scales, but they shed as a whole skin. So they don't shed them individually. So hatching like this, OK? Series of parallel lines, it just helps to give some shading, OK? Now you might want to do them quite far apart, if it's a lighter scale. Or you might want to do them very close together, which gives the impression of a darker scale. Cross-hatching is when we then go the other way. So I've got my hatching, and then I'm going the other way. And can you see how it starts to give me different depths of shade? So again, have a little practise, find a different area in your sketchbook. Try this. So hatching and cross-hatching, try making the lines closer together. You'll find that it's darker. Spreading them out, it's lighter. That's good. Try doing a mixture so maybe one area is slightly darker. It's better like that. Oh, I like those scales. Is it? Good.

[TEACHER SPEAKS QUIETLY TO A CHILD]

STUDENT

Is it possible to get this bit?

TEACHER

OK. But well, you've got the right idea. I think if you try and get your lines closer together, then it's going to make it more even. And also, can you see this one, that's a bit more pointy, isn't it? So that one's a bit pointy, and that one's quite curved. So try and keep them parallel. Yeah? Like that. And try keeping them the same distance apart.

STUDENT

I'll just do the same as that, just the other way around on top of it.

TEACHER

Yes. Yeah. Try that. This is nice. I like that. So with these, try doing them like this. I would like you to use a whole page, please. So these scales are going to be big. All right? Scales are going to be big, but I really want you to focus on the shading. Look at the shape. Look at where the shade is. Look at those colours. Think about the hatching and the cross-hatching, and the pattern. Yeah. Thank you very much. Right. OK. Alright Michael? Have you tried doing some of the scales with more shapes like the diamonds? Yeah? Let's do that. And also, you look at these ones over here, where the scales themselves are darker, the lines in between are actually quite light, aren't they? So it's almost as if you've got to draw the inside bit of the scale. And then you leave the outside as a border. Does that make sense?

STUDENT

Try doing this.

TEACHER

Shall I show you?

STUDENT

[INAUDIBLE]

TEACHER

Yeah? So try and get the overall shape so that it's just like a--

STUDENT

In 3D?

TEACHER

It's going to be 3D, yes. That's fine. That's why you do the shading. Have a go. Have a go. Yeah? Yes. Yep. You practicing doing those ones? So you make sure to press down too hard at this point. Do you want a different pencil or sharpen that one. Yeah? Sharpen that one. Oh, yes, I like that. That's looking good. It's looking good. So what I want you to do then. So think about shape-- got an shape, because you look. It's like a squashed S, isn't it? That's it. That's it. Got the idea, then you can go the opposite way. OK. I think you can make it a bit bigger. You might find it easier. Yeah? So draw it out so that it is slightly-- make it quite chunky. Yeah? I think because it's so narrow, it is difficult to put it in. So draw a cylinder, essentially. Make it quite big. Perhaps there. OK. So just to remind you that it's a cylinder, just do a rounded end there. You all right?

STUDENT

Yeah, is it like this?

TEACHER

I'll come and have a look in a moment, yeah? Just-- right, OK. And then again. Do another go-around. Right. So if it helps you, imagine if it was totally flat, it would just be double that, OK? Its consistency, OK? Right. OK, I'm coming around. Oh, I like that.

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

OK. Well, that was just going to help you. So when you do your outline, you can put those lines in there, if you wish to, as a guideline. OK, that's nice and [INAUDIBLE] pencil, because then you do scales at the top. I really like the shades you've got there. What we need to do is just put shading in the end of each one. You look here. Yeah. It's-- just remember, we're going in the same direction, so whichever end you do, do it in the same end. That's it. And so pretend.

TEACHER

No, don't [INAUDIBLE] properly. So going in the same direction.

STUDENT

Below it.

TEACHER

Oh, the one below, yes. Yeah, so the one below will be the same place.

TEACHER

Yeah. That's it. I like it.

STUDENT

OK.

TEACHER

OK. What?

STUDENT

So what is the finished picture supposed to look like?

TEACHER: Right. So it's going to look like this, as near as possible. So we've got the shape, OK, which is your cylinder. I mean, he's coiled round there. But can you see if you take that part there? That's your cylinder shape, which is why, if you then want to put those very faint pencil lines, because that's going to sort of help to guide you to where the scales need to go. And then you put the detail in. So look at each scale, put the shading in. Think about where the colours are so you've got patches. Yeah. Yeah.

STUDENT: [INAUDIBLE]

TEACHER: Are you feeling comfortable with that?

STUDENT: Yeah.

TEACHER: You'll be all right. You'll be all right.

TEACHER: Yeah, of course. How are you doing? Fabulous. OK, so I like this. I thought that's exactly the shape. So can you see you've got different sizes of scales? Wait a minute. Different sizes of scales as well, some of them slightly smaller, some of them slightly larger. OK? Don't make them too small all over. Because I'm just having a look. Some of those are quite small. They're not all small is what I'm saying. Yeah? OK? But I really like you've got lines in there. It's helping you to get the direction? Remember to put your shading, as well, because that makes the 3D effect. OK? Yes?

STUDENT

I'll do this bit and I'll shade it. And I'll do this bit, and I'll shade it.

TEACHER

Yeah. Yeah, OK, very methodical. I like that. Yeah. Well, actually, when you look.

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

So I like that, yeah.

STUDENT

Yeah, it's like almost what see there.

TEACHER

That's nice. I like that.

STUDENT

And almost what we've just done that to the--

TEACHER

They're a little irregular, aren't they?

TEACHER

How they're spaced out. [INTERPOSING VOICES]

TEACHER

That's nice. Good, you've got the shape.

TEACHER

It does. It does.

STUDENT

He's smelling you.

STUDENT

He can't smell me.

TEACHER

Ashton. OK, so we've got that. And I've got to get the scales at the top, so two hands. So you can stroke him. Do you want to hold him?

STUDENT

Hold him.

TEACHER: It'll just be a quick hold. So there you go. He's heavy, isn't he?

STUDENT

Yeah.

TEACHER

Yeah?

STUDENT

You can kind of see [INAUDIBLE].

TEACHER

Yeah. There we go. Well done.

STUDENT

[INAUDIBLE]

TEACHER

There we go. Yeah, well done. That's a good idea, actually. As soon as you held him.

STUDENT

Feels so weird.

TEACHER

Yeah. Very rubbery isn't he. Would you like to hold him or would you like to stroke him?

TEACHER

You don't have to.

STUDENT

I'll hold him.

TEACHER

You want to hold him?

STUDENT

Yeah.

TEACHER

Yeah? That's the substrate.

STUDENT

Are you going to hold him?

TEACHER

Well done.

STUDENT

It's around his mouth, detect [INAUDIBLE].

TEACHER

The heat. That's it there.

[INTERPOSING VOICES]