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How To Draw 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

idrawdigital - Tutorials for Drawing Digital Comics We Help You Draw fancymarquis: my new brush u guys were asking for!! hope u like it ^u^ !! (Source: oujjou, via art-and-sterf) giobrowniesplace asked: I'm having a problem... Can our followers help? 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". 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.

Perspective Seen from Different Points of View ) on a plane. The third method was a carthographic method of linear perspective: the oikumene as seen from one vieuwpoint (mappamundi). 111 Ptolemy’s atlas arrived in Florence in 1400, just before the outburst of creativity, 114 this new approach provided mathematical unity for the geographic knowledge in a coordinate framework (grid-system). 118 A similar grid-system was applied in Alberti’s ‘velo’, a gridlike veil that organized the visible world into a geometric composition, structured on evenly spaced grid coordinates (De Pictura, Book Two): object ‘represented on the flat surface of the veil’. 120 Relation rediscovery of Ptolemy’s atlas, the rediscovery of linear perspective (Brunellesci) and the rediscovery of America (Columbus), 121 cf Toscanelli, writing to the Portugese court about sailing routes to the Orient. 125 Brunelleschi: idea of the perceptual [sic!] ‘truth’ of linear perspective. In Vol.2 K compares the next texts of Euclid’s Optics: Euclidis Optica (ed.

Online Drawing Lessons - Learn to Draw Online for Free drawing lessons Discover How to Draw & Paint Whatever You Want 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. 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.