Mini Tutorial How to Paint Water Drops. Light is coming from above left: Light is coming from left on this red water drop Anatomy of a Water Drop Sharon’s Technique for Water Drops I love to paint water drops and think it is very easy. 1.You will always start out by outlining the water drop with a dark color that is one or two values darker than the color of what the drop is on. 2. 3. 4.Add a highlight of pure White on the upper left inside of the water drop over this shadow, for the lightest highlight. 5.Using a soft blending brush tap in the refracted light. 6.Using Black Green paint the cast shadow on the outside of the water drop.
Reflected Light: light waves that bounce back to our eye from a surface rather that being absorbed into it Refracted Light: the separation of white light into bands of color seen when white light is passed through a prism. SEE VIDEO AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE ON HOW TO PAINT A WATER DROP. How to Draw Flowers and Plants". Flower Image Gallery Publications International, Ltd.Learn how to draw a rose and other flowers and plants with our step-by-step instructions. Bring out your inner artist as you learn how to draw a rose. See more pictures of flowers. From the deepest valleys to the highest mountains, flowers and plants can be found in all shapes, sizes and colors.
On the following pages, you can bring out your inner artist as you learn how to draw flowers and plants. The easy, step-by-step instructions on the following pages will teach you how to draw everything from daisies and daffodils to strawberries and spider plants. Each drawing begins with a few simple shapes printed in red ink.
The following steps also show the earlier drawings in black and the new marks and shapes in red. A blank space near each step lets you practice your drawing skills. When you have finished, use a pen or fine felt-tip marker to darken the pencil marks that make up the finished drawing. How to Draw Illustrations. The Psychology of Color. Download the infographic as a PDF Embed this image on your site: How To Draw A Wave | Club Of The Waves.
This art tutorial, kindly donated by surfing comic strip illustrator and surf artist Bob Penuelas covers how to draw a wave the Wilbur Kookmeyer way! If you're like me, then you've probably spent a lot of time in high school class daydreaming and doodling a thousand perfect cartoon waves in your notebook. It's safe to say that ninety percent of us surfers have a habit of scribbling perfect waves whenever a pencil is in our hands. Hopefully the following pointers will help you change your throw-away wave doodles into actual compelling artwork that you want to keep forever. Remember, there are millions of ways to draw a wave and hopefully with these simple pointers you'll find a million more.
So, have fun. Drawing a basic wave The following illustrations and captions by Bob Penuelas take you through the basic steps of drawing a wave… Step 1 Sketch in the basic shape of the curl, spray, foam and base of the wave. Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Add the rest of the flow lines. Step 5 Step 6 Tips… Paddler's view. How to Draw Celtic Knotwork. The old method These instructions can be followed with pencil and paper or using any computer based drawing or drafting program. I have used Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator, and AutoDesk AutoCad for various projects, but my favorite is Corel Draw. In the tutorial below I show the method that I use in Corel Draw; however, I have deliberately left out program-specific instructions. I did this to make the instructions more broadly applicable to work with as many drawing and CAD programs as possible.
This method, like most, begins with drawing the grid. Of course you could use graph paper, but that would limit the size of your finished pattern to the sizes of graph paper that you happen to have available. The second step is to draw in the diagonals. Next draw in the connecting curves that will become the edges of the knotwork. This is the step that most people have the most trouble with: deciding where to "Break the Grid". Here is how I do it:: I CHEAT! 1). Or 2). But back to the tutorial.