I spoke earlier how easy watercolor is. The techniques are not easy, they come with much practice. The ease is in the simplicity of the materials needed, cleans-up with water, and easy to travel with. Here we will discuss the 3 supplies a beginner would need to start in watercolor. […]
Adding perspective to your drawings will greatly improve your drawing skills and the impression of realism in your work. But perspective has rules an artist must follow in order for it to be done correctly. When an observer looks at an object, he sees it from one point of view, either […]
” No thinking, emotionally developed person can remain indifferent to literature, poetry, music, theater, or the arts. While philosophy and science tend to draw us into considering our environment rationally, the arts smile upon everything , endowing it with its integrating and colorful imagery.” We’ve all experienced Watercolor, probably as early […]
I went to a local artist’s exhibit last week. One piece that interested me was an assignment he gave his High School students, a 24 Hour Doodle. The exercise is meant to be a visual “free association” drawing taking 24 hours. It will also help with unblocking and opening up your creativity. […]
Perspective – “The art of drawing solid objects on a 2 dimensional surface to give the correct impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other depending on the viewer’s view point.” So that’s the definition, what does it mean? We all know how to draw a square. […]
We discussed 5 tricks that will give the illusion that your 2 dimensional image expresses space and depth. These techniques are composition (foreground, middle ground and background), size ,placement, overlapping, and perspective. And we used a beach picture as reference for each of these techniques. For this exercise find a […]
Space….. Not outer space, but the space that’s all around us. The space that differentiates between what’s close to you and what’s far away. That’s easy to do in real space. If it’s close enough, you can reach out and touch it. If it’s far away, you can’t. But there is no real […]
How does an artist achieve the illusion of 3 dimensional space on the 2 dimensional surface of your paper? We call it “Composition”. Composition is the arrangement of the elements in an image into specific proportions and into artistic form. Placement and arrangement of these visual elements is achieved by using […]
I want to mention one more drawing method before going on to our new topic of techniques for this month, the Grid method of drawing. Drawing with a grid is a way to create proportionately accurate pictures from photos. This method will help to easily enlarge the standard 4×6 photograph into a larger image. […]
When drawing a picture of a person, there are generic steps to follow that show basic proportions of a human face. Once you become comfortable with the generic measurements and proportions, you’ll be able to use your powers of observation to see those slight variations in a person’s face that makes them look […]