![]() These aren’t just arbitrary variations of tone-look at them as planes. In the light, sometimes things appear too flat. If light on a form varies with no discernible boundaries, it has no planes it is rounded. Planes When the light and shade of an object varies in clearly defined areas, it is said to have planes. Construction Emphasize construction line rather than contour line in the blocking-in of a figure. ![]() You can do anything with the darks so long as it is accurate where it meets the light. Doing thumbnail sketches will help you to see this. Be aware of the positive nature of the paper left untouched. – Fred Fixler In a drawing, try to keep open or white spaces as part of the design they provide rest for the eye. Every device must be employed to carry out accuracy of initial mapping-out of a drawing. Matisse recommended tracing over drawing using fewer and fewer lines – to get the essence. ![]() Flow is critical part of drawing, making the eye move. Feel the bend and stretch What faces you (or light source) is light, what recedes is tone Can contain complex forms within simple forms “I add looser strokes so it doesn’t look like I worked so hard.” – Glenn Vilppu Use overlap to clarify the structure of complex shapes like trees and boats as well as figures Often use the model as a guide for drawing from imagination. – Fred Fixler Show different mechanics between resting and moving Relate the drawing to its support/base and dynamic relationships. In strong light, impose a definite boundary to all lights and all shadows, arbitrarily if necessary Strength in draftsmanship lies in the degree to which structure is depicted. One can do anything with the darks as long as it is accurate where it meets the light. Gerneral Key points: Intensify proportions, exaggerate, use caricature Draw what you know if it helps the drawing Follow a procedure: rough proportion (tic marks), gesture, proportion, form, modeling form (including core shadow and anatomy), finish with emphasis Get the gesture right (action, proportion and balance) before moving on When editing drawings at home, it should be a subtractive process: eraser, not pencil. – Fred Fixler You need to know how to make something unimportant as well as important Even in a sketch, have something implying the background Should not have line driven style and shape driven style in the same picture. Otherwise, the subject will not hold together it will lose validity. The object is to make all lighted areas hold together as one group, as should the shadow areas. Make all areas in the light a little lighter than you see them, and all areas in the shadow a little darker than you see them. Basics Draw what you see, and if you can’t see, draw what you know Show soft corners, nearest observer Observe angles, arcs, verticals and horizontals Observe both sides of the form, draw into the form, not just the contours Use structure and symmetry Use overlap Use errors to improve the drawing, start lightly and don’t erase Get the gesture first Move from general to particular Increase the contrast. What follows is the section on drawing.ĭrawing Drawing – Notes and a Tutorial for Artists Notes from many experts including: Glenn Vilppu, Karl Gnass, Felix Fixler, Elio Camacho, Henry Yan, Vadim Zang, Will Weston, Nathan Fowkes and others They are all posted on my website ( For Artists/Still Life Painting) and, assuming WetCanvas has no objection, I will be posting them all in the proper categories on WetCanvas. They are, currently, organized into eight categories: color, composition, design, drawing, figure painting, landscape painting, still life painting, and vision and light. Consequently, the neophyte should look elsewhere for instruction, but I think the advanced artist will find them quite helpful. ![]() The notes were for my own use, so I tried to avoid taking notes on something I already knew. Anyway, I thought others might find them useful. Art is so extensive that every book and every instructor has to focus, but my notes could be more wide-ranging, especially as I limited them to bullet points. The resulting document was so helpful, that I have continued to edit, delete and reorganize my notes ever since. So about ten years ago I decided to get organized, take careful notes (in my own words except as otherwise noted) and compile them into a single document so that I could compare what one expert said with what others said. My initial idea was to read anything that I thought would be useful, but after I had read about 30 books and taken a few classes I was more confused than ever. ![]() Like many an artist, I’ve read a good many books, viewed many a video and studied with a quite a few experts. ![]()
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