Any Tips On Learning How To Draw?

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Re: Any Tips On Learning How To Draw?

Post by Bella Fortuna » Wed Jul 01, 2009 5:59 am

Fine, ignore the former art major... :ddpan:

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One thing that really helped me in learning to "see" properly is to draw upside down - not hanging from scaffolding, but selecting a photograph, turning it upside down, and drawing what you see that way. It helps fool your brain and gets you to really observe spatial relationships and shapes and colors/shadows rather than having your conscious mind impose what it thinks you should be representing.
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Re: Any Tips On Learning How To Draw?

Post by RESiNATE » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:40 am

Manofnofaith wrote:Hi there, I want to learn to draw.
The ability to draw, I think, is as inate as most skills but can be learned.
I 'can' draw, but I always struggled with drawing the female form (my favourite subject cos i love the female form...the curves, the movement,...hang on, I need to stop thinking about the female form a minute...

Anyway, I 'discovered' that if I treated the female form in terms of triangles (go with me on this lol) then I could at least give myself a 'framework' to work with. I'll explain:

Take a triangle with the 'pointy bit' pointing down, then place another triangle (with 'pointy bit' pointing up) on top of the first triangle so that a 'diamond' shape is made at thier intersection. You now have an angular version of an hour-glass shape - this gives me the torso of the female. I can then gauge where to 'place' boobies and bellybuttons!

What I'm trying to say is this - if 'classical techniques' don't work, try geometrical representations; heads are upside down egg shaped, etc.

I'm posting some of the pictures I've done:



As with everything in life, practice makes perfect...keep trying dude, and remember that Art is subjective and there is no 'right way' to express it.

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Re: Any Tips On Learning How To Draw?

Post by RESiNATE » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:41 am

Posting of pictures will follow lol

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Re: Any Tips On Learning How To Draw?

Post by Feck » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:42 am

Bella Fortuna wrote:What sorts of things? I can draw a bit.

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Re: Any Tips On Learning How To Draw?

Post by RESiNATE » Tue Jul 07, 2009 9:19 am

Apologies for poor quality, but here are some of my doodles lol...

The one with the highlighted triangles shows (I hope lol) what I was talking about re using geometric shapes for aid.

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(I confess to being particularly proud of 'Gemini'...3rd picture down)
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