Category: Drawing
How to Draw with Pastels
| July 13, 2011 | Posted by Jacob Devies under Drawing |
Though thicker than pencils and markers, the pastel has many benefits when drawing, its colors are vibrant and can create lovely textures onto the surface you are drawing on at the time. Pastels usually come in a pack, you can buy them separately, if you go to an art shop. Apart from this, you can…
Return of the Colored Pencil
| June 25, 2011 | Posted by Jacob Devies under Drawing |
Artists are no longer restricting themselves to charcoal, pen, ink, and graphite pencils. It’s about time. The return of the colored pencil has been long-awaited. Unlike any other medium, the colored pencil provides the control we lack with a brush, and conveys the expressiveness we find in paintings. Color can be layered and blended. Textures…
Sighting Your Subject: Drawing and Sketching Techniques
| June 25, 2011 | Posted by admin under Drawing |
Ever wondered what that artist was doing with a pencil between his fingers an arm’s length away from his eye? Or maybe you saw him giving a ‘thumbs-up’ sign to a chair halfway across the room, (or so it appeared). It’s not another bizarre act performed by the eccentric artist. It’s a technique used to…
Pencil Drawing: Create Art with a Few Strokes of a Pencil
| June 23, 2011 | Posted by Jacob Devies under Drawing |
Think you can’t draw? Think again! Drawing is easy and fun with these two techniques: contour drawing and shadow drawing. Materials: white paper a pencil black marker or crayon an eraser an object to draw
Basics of Drawing and Sketching
| June 23, 2011 | Posted by Jacob Devies under Drawing |
Artists see the world in terms of four elements. They see shapes first, then lines, values, and textures. If you can learn the language of art and start to see the world the way artists do, you will draw much more accurately. Artists draw the shapes around the object (the negative space) instead of looking…
Drawing & Sketching: Defining the Common Tools
| June 10, 2011 | Posted by Jacob Devies under Drawing, Sketching |
Charcoal, Crayons, and Chalk Charcoal: Charcoal is a great tool as it can be smudged easily, erased, blurred, and smeared with a kneaded eraser or chamois skin. Charcoal comes in three different grades: soft, medium, and hard. There are three kinds of charcoal: compressed, charcoal pencil, and vine. Compressed charcoal comes in the form of…
Drawing & Sketching: The Artist's Toolbox
| June 10, 2011 | Posted by Jacob Devies under Drawing |
Why haven’t you indulged in expressing yourself through the form of drawing and sketching? Perhaps you heard a rumor that the real reason artists are labelled as ‘starving’ is because the materials cost so much? Art materials can cost a fortune, if you buy more than you’ll need. Yes, it’s true, no artist could survive…
Contour Drawing Technique to Capture Gestures Quickly!
| June 10, 2011 | Posted by Jacob Devies under Drawing |
The best way to begin to learn how to draw is by mastering a technique called ‘contour drawing.’ Focus less on making your object look realistic and study the outline of the drawing. What shape is it? How tall is the object? Simply ‘study’ your object. The key to recreating an object is taking a…
Drawing Upside Down
| June 6, 2011 | Posted by Jacob Devies under Drawing |
The key to this exercise is to draw without thinking about what you’re drawing. Instead, concentrate on looking and seeing which allows your brain to directly process the visual information. Play some classical music and plan to spend at least a leisurely half hour on this exercise. Exercise: I’m a firm believer in originality but…
