The Secret City; Pilot

Oh. My girls and boys. I'm Commander Mark. We have a lot of fun today I my pens and my pencils I'm all geared up and I'm ready to draw. Are you ready to draw. You have to have paper and pencil because we're at the secret city this is the neatest the most exciting place you're ever going to visit. Fun exciting things happen every day. Different things you've never experienced before but they're fun and you're still enjoy them. We're going to do some drawings today we're going to take a fresh look at all the faces

around you might take a fresh look at your face and my face in everybody's face and we don't have to take that fresh look and put on the piece of paper and draw that face in 3D three dimensional drawing. I'm going teach you a magic word. Some of the seven magic words. And also I'm going introduce you to some special guests of mine Miss tulip. She's really cute are going to like her. And also Joel Gauri who is going to have some fun with faces. He has some fun with masks. And I'll tell you about that later too. So if you're ready with your paper and pencil make sure you have paper pencil two or three sheets of paper. You ready. All right. Let's go. People all over the country draw me an airplane. They draw me something like this take a look at this. See this this is a flat airplane. You can tell it's an airplane right. Can you draw an airplane better than this. Raise your hand if you can draw it better than that. Well this is a good airplane you can tell it's an airplane let me show you something and show you what a three dimensional airplane looks like. See this is flat. I got drawn in 3-D right here and the way I'm drawing this airplane in

3-D is because I'm using seven magic words of drawing. And I'm going to tell you about one of those magic words today and eventually throughout the series you learn all seven magic words you see the difference between flat and 3D you will learn how to draw in 3-D like that. Well let me tell you about foreshortening that's the first magic word for shorts. Can you say that for short scene perfect. Here's a square. Take the square and I get tilted toward you. See that turns into a foreshortened Square. I even draw a foreshortened Square for you. See this. The square line down not a flat square not one like that and across that score on this is a foreshortened Square me show you a circle there is a circle Now watch what happens to the shape of the circle when I foreshortened it and there are the magic words. So you had tilted towards you see that turns into a foreshortened circle there is a regular circle right that's a flat circle and across a stronger three dimensional circle. You can even practice these on your paper yet your paper pencil in front of you. For shorten for short

three dimensional. OK let's use foreshortening and draw some really fun three dimensional faces together. Why. Then are I can't keep up with you you draw so fast. Look at. I am pretty slow because I'm just a beginner. I'm kind of afraid of drawing but I drew that. And that's the flat square. No not me. I think I could try that short thing that your talk about wasn't foreshortening. That's right because I could do those dots. Anybody can draw dots and I'm not afraid to do a dot and another. Another. And then one that one no. Maybe if I could if I could connect those dots. I could write the square. Why don't it already looks like it's about to fall down. So it might just flop over if I do that. We're going to we're going to do that.

Is it because it is if I if I talk it with my pencil I'll do that later. That's pretty good I got that far. I wonder what I forgot to say. And one more thing what I was going to lose that helps though. Right about there. That looks like it's going looks pretty good. That was a good for sure and square MS too it was a girls you have a pencil and paper ready right. We're going to have some fun with the faces we're going to draw in 3-D on the paper here. Your pencil fueled up an array to blast across the paper. You know we're going to do today's world draw three different faces and

draw faces in three different views and draw a front view. You're looking right into my face right now straight on face value. Now watch my eyes the shape of my eyes the shape of my nose in the shape of my mouth as I turn away from you. And watch this this is a three quarter view. See how my eyes change shape get smaller over here doesn't it's a foreshortened circle now a front view a three quarter view. And then watch the profile. See this they go across like this. There's my big nose and my chin. That's a profile front. Three quarter profile. So let's draw those three views on your piece of paper. You know Pennsylvania right. OK. Loosen up a little bit and sketch a little oval. Draw the first face will be the front of you and take your pencil I have a pin right here I think and I can't I don't draw a darkling I draw a dotted line right here I can draw a light line but you have a pencil and so with your pencil you can draw a nice light line not have to use dots dot across here dotted line those are my guidelines so I can place the eyes and the nose in the mouth and right place now draw your two eyes right here they're all the nose my

eyelids make them kind of tired right there and then put the eyes right next to the eyelids. Cute how makes them look kind of sleepy enough for the grin lines and take a look at my face again right here. Give me a grin so you give me a smile. Oh come on you can be a better smile than that little more enthusiasm come on smile and take your hand so you can feel your Greenline right there. Well I can I have a mustache but you can I'm sure feel your Greenline. We're going to draw the green line right here where this dotted line is next to the I see draw big green line big green line. That is quite jolly enough let's make them another one right here. Make them a little more cheerful looking in and give them a smile to see how the smile turns up as a dotted line. These guidelines are really helpful. Draw the ear Here comes to the bottom line and draw the ear here. And then draw a little lip you can make his mouth open if you want to you can do anything extra to this that you want to you can add all kinds of extras you can make his mouth open you can put a hat on a mission draw some hair is my favorite part I watched as you just take your pencil already for this

cool. See that as an isolator to Disney. OK I got kind of carried away you could add some more if you want to. Don't knock down your easel if you have an easel but have some fun. Pull the hair down a little bit and see as little bit of character has some fun. Now these are cartoon faces you don't always have to draw a cartoon faces you can draw real faces realistic portraits if you want to later on but right now it's just learn how to control the face with the cartoon. Now to Don straight across the next piece of paper draw a little three dimensional TV set and draw the face of the three quarter view member of the front three quarter view on the side of the TV set. Take your finger or your finger out for me. I almost read my paper but take your finger put it right there in the middle but a dot above your finger. Now watch this. Don't put too low a lot of people draw their dot way down here drop right here. All right you got that. Move your finger out of the way. Now taking aim and connect the dots see that ship and then turn the corner I'm not going to zip it like Miss tulip did have her she drew the

line and I'm going to want to draw in line to get it straight. Thank am sure sure sure there's your three quarter or your foreshortened square with a three quarter view over here draw the two straight lines in the middle line and watch this the middle lines a little bit longer slant the bottom here and slant the bottom here don't don't draw straight across you'll have a flatiron. Now draw the screen right here. Quick screen follow lines are already drawn. Draw a little. See this right here. Well knobs makes the knobs of 3-D. Now boys or girls when you learn these magic words it makes your pencil really powerful I call it pencil power and you can really have fun with your drawings you can control the shapes and draw in 3-D member the pencil power. Let's draw a face right here a nice big circle and give it a little for him it is a matter to make a girl or boy in here get a rock n roll T-shirt. Nice little black T-shirt. And then I'm going to draw the face now watch how I draw the face really draw a guideline wrapping around the face to face in volume and control that shape of the face and I watch this I'm going to use my dotted line again but you

just use your pencil and draw very lightly. See this dotted line as it wraps around the face. Now we do the same thing in a wrap around the face this way. And watch this is kind of tricky as it wraps around this is guidelines are called surface lines and more about those of a lot of these in right here to draw an eye almost a circle. Remember how the eye changes shape as it goes around. Never watch as far as I want to see how it gets smaller as it goes around gets foreshortened. That's a tough word. The eye gets for short as it goes around there. And now if you want to know a lot of this I give the dog a small nose. Or you can be kind of crazy like me and quit trying to have some fun with your nose in there when you don't have to draw a big one like that if you don't want to but I did draw a little eyeball there in the lab all there and now is put the green line right here. Remember the grim draw little green line right there. Got that and then draw a smile. Nice cheerful face in their ear in the helix right there. That's an important part of your ear. Just draw a line and draw a line coming out of it and that represents the helix. And now

for the hair just draw some hair coming off his head. You have to be too neat about this you can have some fun. Like a Cindy lopper her lots of energy enthusiasm cools and that finishes our three quarter face the eyes for sure and in those changes shape now and shade the left side of your TV set real sketching here try to stay within the lines and then draw some antenna and it's jump now into the profile and strong the face on the side view. The can control my paper now I'm going to draw that circle or oval shape and they were going to roll the nose. OK drop the nose and then we're going to all the I hear of these profiles almost like an afterthought you just draw the profile really easily it's more the easiest position to draw the face and draw the green line there. You can draw too if you want to injure all the ear with a little helix in there member that line right there and then pull a line down. Now here you don't always have to be real sketch you can make some hair a little more controlled you

see this you can put a little hairdo like that on if you want to and you can color the hair in and you can draw a shoulder if you like. Now that finishes the three faces. Later on you'll be showing you how to take these faces and make them into three dimensional mask and have a lot of fun with them and also be meeting a special guest with some masks and then later on also be showing you something called the gallery miss tulip and I will take you through the gallery and show you some drawings kids have sent in and also be drawn in a secret city for you and showing you how after you learn those magic words the pencil power that's what I call pencil power you can build your own secret city. OK it's time for the Secret City Club girls and boys. I want to tell you a little bit about how to get into the secret city club. I bet you during the drawing lesson the whole time you're sitting there you're looking at this neat little badge I'm wearing the secret city badge you're what you were thinking how cool it was and how you want to get one. Well let me tell you how you get your little badge Each week we have a little activity or project or a drawing to do and once you finish these projects. I

love the get mail I like to see how you're drawing and if you're following with the lessons and when you mail these projects in to me they're easy anybody can do it. You get to be a member of the Secret City Club and then when I have my cool little badge. Now this week's project to get into the secret City Club today going to the mirror into your bathroom your dressing room and draw yourself a little portrait look in the mirror and draw a little portrait of yourself. Take a fresh look at your face and take a fresh look and put on to the piece of paper fold it up neatly. Be careful to put in the envelope and address it. I'll give you the address in a minute. Mill it into me and a little secrecy club badge. All right but make sure you mail it in soon to see all kinds of mail and see how you're drawing. OK here's the address you ready either paper or pencil on the back of one of your drawings. There it is ready to send it to Commander Marks. The Secret City Maryland Public Television might say that too fast for you. Owings Mills Maryland. 2 1

1 1 7 and millet assumes you can have lots of badges you're ready for your game. Now I told you Miss tool but I'm going to rob asked to gather you for along with me and have some fun and put your pencil to paper and get ready. Yes Commander Mark I'm ready for action. You're ready to go at first told me adjust your glasses so you can see better. Does that better still tell it still tilted. There you go. But there are better you know what we saw in the mask or what smart. Do it gets me Commander Mark with a shoulder all around oval right here to show you how to do it. Watch me here or draw a guideline let me know if I'm on your way or want to start trying to here make sure you get out of my way or have fun with it here you know you can make sound effects and get into it I know it scares me. As for the eye is right there must be watching again tension might make the guy here looking out toward the sea. When you make the eyes looking up you just put the little

eyeballs in looking up and you can make him look indifferent or he's looking at stars and everything up in the sky the green lines. How many green lights I put in a suit. Side two on his side one might remember that one there. I did one here and one here is enough or only enough that you don't have a mouth. Oh I forgot that's what you're going to have a mustache. I'll make him smile right here. I like someone that put a mouth open right here. Yes I'd like that an open an open look at his nose looks almost like your nose. Put it on very smart. So it is. I wash my face that's more in your hair looks nice too. I watch that too but you know very tempting those to put out do you think of that. I'm sorry I'll be serious now I get back to my mask. I know if you look at the night dark inside there see that you are laughing. That's called overlapping makes the tongue look at city and their tongue and draw a little. I can

lip right there and watch the year look like Misty if you look over here. Pay attention to the air over here. There you see the air right here. OK now let's draw a hat on this fellow. Draw a line across here at the top. Yeah that's a big hat like a beanie No it's not going to make like a top hat coming off here. So you were going to stand behind here see it was like this. Sure. Right behind the ear there when you're there. Yeah goes like this. Draw the thickness of the hat so it's kind of weirdly line. My word that's OK. Now draw the two lines coming up from the top of the hat right here. Now watch as mist to it this is going to be remember the foreshortening that word for us for sure what kind of word is that big word where it's just because we're saying that's a magic word magic magic big magic word for short is important member gives up pencil the power in there to draw in 3D this is like a foreshortened circle you make this curve like that see it follows the shape of the head and then will put a little

stripe across the hat and draw that curve there and then leave a little reflection. I can put two lines so you leave that white you color this in this tool if your glasses are slipping again I'm looking so hard. You're doing a good job of watching them to still see that what you can see that reflection I did you see that. Yes I see it. And in color this in a COS see that this is the fun part because you take your pencil is sort of the squint straight down with your pencil take your pencil hold it sideways and go like this and say with the side of your pencil do you cover more area that way. And then a little face appear put to round eyes you don't have faces in the hat that you want to draw a little like cartoon character jumping out of this is that you know that's where the one also fun though is you have to hand over the same time. OK see this is called adding extras and you can add extra time you want to make it your own drawing a scene draw a little arm in arm you see that these are like little bananas. See that I do my thing is like bananas do you see you know sort of when they're

all a little bit of those with nails and you're all three little bears hang in there and then the hair is the fun part. True. Well I always have to be careful there's the eyes right there. If you want to make that popping open and then draw the helix right here. Now boys and girls and this tulip if you want to take this in turn this into a mascot you have to do is cut this out put under a piece of stick border cardboard tape and I'll show you what I did I already made one to show you what looks like see if I took the drawing I colored in you can add extras like that semi the top popping open tape the back onto a stick and you can put it over your face right here you can have a lot of fun you can bounce around and have fun with your friends or you can scratch your face and her mass to her. Look at those are these are extras you're good at making dots the best you have doing this to let you know that Coldfire invented those girls that's not your lipstick again so you had an

extra there so everybody can see that lipstick. Now let me show you introduce you to a friend of mine Joel Gauri who lets you have a lot of fun with your master right. Put yours back on so you can see it one more time. OK your glasses off everything in the folder Mouser. OK thank you. That. With. With.

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the. Here we are in the picture gallery of the secret city and we have some beautiful drawings that the children have sent to us. The first is by Eric Massa and it has beautiful beautiful eyes and hair and wonderful shading very sensitive I think I like it. The next one over here is by Shannon Meissner. She's 10 years old

and she has made a beautiful oval and wonderful extraordinarily super size the best that I've seen in a long time. And now the next one is by John Williams. He's 10 years old in the fifth grade. Look at that profile. We don't have too many profiles and he's observed things so carefully that he has his sweater. And you can see where the hood is folded down. Lovely. And over here the last drawing we have is by Priscilla and she was seven years old. She used color very nicely and noticed. Here. I am. Terrific shirt there with decorations. Now you people at home you make sure you do your drawing and send it through.

Commander Mark and remember if you want more information the magic word for shorten the whole seven magic words. Just what you need to learn to draw. Commander Mark has written a book to help you too. For you a copy send a check or money order to commander by the secret Maryland Public Television only 1 1 1. And one of the challenges of the secrecy is learning how to take all these magic words you learn how to put them on a piece of paper and put them together you see a build in my own little secret city here. I'm using the foreshortened squares we talked about today. I'm using the foreshortened circles and we talked about faces on the ass of faces right in here. Now I'm drawn as I want to remind you that make sure you practice your drawings a lot makes you send me lots of mail I love to get mail. Practice draw draw draw and make your own secret city and put a little face right here little nose and a smile

has been fun sharing the secret city with you. Come back again next time all right.