Discussion Page Article: A list of recommended books on sketching Hokusai: One Hundred Views of Mt Fuji by Henry D. Smith This is a must have for all who want to focus on the beauty of line using brush and ink -- in a Japanese style. It's not an instruction book like the two above, but a collection of some of the finest examples of brush drawing I have ever seen. 19th century Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai produced these when he was over seventy years old, and they represent years of experience and refinement. This is a reproduction or facsimile of a book of wood block prints which were based on his drawings. This book has become more valuable as I continually go back and study these works. This book is the next best thing to having the original book of prints. One caveat: the cover on my paperback copy was not well glued to the spine, and fell off in a few minutes. This book seems to be out of print, and only a few copies are available from individual sellers through Amazon.
Skin Shading Overview The idea to this painting came when I sat down with my notebook in my sofa one evening, and tried to come up with something that was both upclose and personal, yet touched on larger issues, such as affairs of state. Preferrably involving only two people, because I find that can often be more intense. A royal assassination, I thought, and since I like Fantasy, it became an idea of two fairy sisters, one of them Queen, and a serious case of sibling jealousy. I added a sleeping husband in the background, to supply one more possible reason for jealousy. Later, I came up with a whole screenplay based on this and two of my other paintings featuring fairies. 1. the sketch Roughly sketched on small notebook paper without erasing. 1b. cylinders and light All good art courses teach the basics by making students draw spheres, blocks and cones in different lighting, over and over. 2. gray-wash on sketch 3. white highlights Next I fill in whatever should be lightest. 4. refine 5. 6. refine
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Online Drawing Lessons - Learn to Draw Online for Free Discover How to Draw & Paint Whatever You Want Learn to Draw - The basic elements in drawing Let's get a bit more in depth with the elements of drawing. The rest of this website will get even further into each of these elements. Line is the most basic element of the drawing. And in it's most basic definition, it's what separates one area of the drawing plane from the other. A single line will segment your piece of paper into "that area" and "this area". The more lines that are added, the more complex and numerous the separations become: light from dark, foreground from background, positive space from negative space. I'm not saying we won't be drawing lines because they don't exist in the real world. Shape occurs when the first line is drawn. Proportion and Perspective. Light and Shadow create depth and atmosphere in a drawing. The whole drawing.
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Tips for Drawing: Form and Volume Recently I came across some very wise questioning by an animator named Peter J. Casey during an online discussion of “How to get better at art” over at AnimationForum.net. Today I want to revise the answer I gave there and take a deeper look at practicing form and volume. In the discussion, it was brought up that you need to practice fundamentals (very true). Every good artist will tell you that, but Peter brought up a good point: “Ok then define it here, because ‘Foundations’ have never been explained to me. This is what I’ve gathered from ‘foundations.’ Practice form and volume: Ok yeah, I get that, make the drawing look like it appears in 3d space. First I want to point out that Peter is well ahead of me in one very important way: He asked what I had wondered about for years. Since I had once had those same questions, and Peter currently has those same questions, I decided there are probably MANY people out there who have those same questions. Form and Volume
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