Julianna Kunstler. Home page. How to Draw what you See: Techniques and Tips to Improve your Drawing Skills. This article contains step-by-step images of the process I use to create realistic looking drawings, as well as tips I’ve picked up over the years which anyone can use to improve their drawing skills.
There’s a lot to cover, so let’s get started! 1. Make sure there’s a direct light source. Before I started on the drawing for this tutorial, the first thing I did was set up a lamp pointing at my still life from just a few feet away. I also turned off all the other lights in the room to increase contrast and clarify each shadow. It’s extremely important to make good lighting for yourself when you’re drawing indoors. 2. This is the best way I’ve found to start a drawing, and it’s pretty easy too. Store-bought viewfinders work too. Move the viewfinder around until you’ve found the best composition possible and tape it in place.
When you look through the viewfinder, everything within the frame is what you’ll draw, and you can ignore the rest. 3. 4. 5. Draw lightly as well. 6. By Betty Edwards. Oil Painting Lessons ~ Free Oil Painting Lessons and Techniques. We're Obsessed With This Easy DIY Artwork Project (& You'll Be, Too!) UPDATE: The long weekend is the perfect time to start some new projects, so why not try this awesome (and so easy) artwork DIY?
This story was originally published on July 25. If there are two things that have been commanding our attention lately, they're cool artwork and chevron prints. So, we were obviously pretty stoked to find a way to incorporate both — for cheap! — in an amazing DIY project for your apartment. Inspired by the work of artist Nancy Ramirez, two stellar Refinery29 interns collaborated on this easy-does-it way to spice up an empty wall. From the moment we spied this Nancy Ramirez painting on Pinterest, we were smitten. Assemble your paints and squeeze a quarter-size amount of each color onto your palette. To incorporate all of our colors, we used one at a time, rinsing our brush between each and blending until we covered the canvas. Once you've covered the canvas, let it dry for a few minutes.
Et voilà! Photographed by Maia Schoenfelder. 30Day. Get inspired. Get motivated. Practice. Improve your drawing skills! Moss Graffiti. Hand Shadow Illusions. Mind Bluff - contents - Quick Links Optical Tricks Genius Teasers Subliminal Mind & Body Fun Special Effects Comics & Graphics More Stuff Astonishing Optical Illusions -- each one different, unique, and fun.
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