On 25 May, 2010 With
Discover seven important tricks that will assist you through the next stairs of your drafting career: In recent contributions you discovered how to understand your depicted objects better, to master your fear of failure and how to practice your draftsmanship unshakably. Within this article I will show you seven important tricks that will assist you through the next stairs of your drafting career: 1. Get a sketch pad at the next art supply store. This cannot be stressed enough. Get one of those nice sketch blocks and take it with you everywhere you go! It enables you to use every free minute for practising your draftsmanship and depict captivating scenes you come across. 2. Keep your draftings secure. As crucial…
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On 24 May, 2010 With
Is not it amazing when you pick up a comic book and read it for the first time? We all remember our first comic book and how one often turns into another, then another and finally an almost insatiable addiction. How the characters begin to come to life within a well scripted and well drawn series. Comic books have for many years driven the imaginations of young and old alike which had many of use running around pretending we are Batman, Superman, and Supergirl or with friends as the team of X-Men. Whether you picked up a ‘Walt Disney’ production or a ‘Japanese Manga Graphic Novel’, be it ‘Detective Comics’ or ‘Marvel’ what you will have almost certainly done is…
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On 23 May, 2010 With
Drawing a nude woman has been a favourite subject for most of the figurative painters. Pencil drawing is the basic source. Taking the help of this source, an artist would build a painting. The final painting can be in water colour or in oil. In present time even the acrylic paintings have got good recognition. The Posture: while drawing a nude female, an artist can request the model woman to sit in a specific posture or get her into bed. Every artist would try showing the beauty of a female body from front side, as that would make the drawing more aesthetic and sensual. Though sensual would be the curves of a nude lady, her mood could be settled in…
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On 20 May, 2010 With
Learning any new form of art is always a challenge, and as a beginner, I am certain you have many questions about drawing. We all need a helping hand when just starting out, so I put together this list of handy tips to help you on your way to becoming a better artist.. I hope you enjoy! 1 – If at all possible, always draw from life and not photographs. 2 – When drawing, less is sometimes better. Do not attempt to draw every line and detail that you see or you will give your viewer too much information to absorb. 3 – Do not try and get all of the information in your drawing completed at one sitting. Drawing…
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On 20 May, 2010 With
In this article we deal with the line drawing phase. We assume that we already have a gridded reference picture of the correct size at our disposal. Your reference image will often be too large for most printers to print in one piece. To get around this you could print the image in pieces on plain 8.5 x 11 inch paper. Step one consists of drawing a grid on your drawing paper identical to the one you drew on your reference image. To do this, use an F-pencil and draw lightly because this grid will need to be erased. With this gridded image in hand you can now start drawing the actual line drawing phase. There are many rewards associated…
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On 4 May, 2010 With
Any scene can initially be seen as a composition of a series of forms that are all related to four basic geometric solids: the brick, the sphere, the cylinder, and the cone. In this article we will discuss the interaction of these four forms and how they can be used to create an initial good likeness of just about any scene you wish to draw. Once you have practiced and internalized the four basic geometric forms it is possible to create a very good representation of any scene you wish to draw. It becomes a matter of putting the forms together in an acceptable manner no matter how complex the scene is. In effect, we have reduced the enormous complexity…
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On 27 Jul, 2005 With
The art industry has always been, and probably always will be, very in demand. Not only because everyone enjoys and good work of art, but because businesses depend on creative marketing images to capture buyer attention. Advertising is arguably the biggest business in the US, if not the world, so the need for cutting edge and clever artistic images is always expanding. The average starting salary for graphic artists alone starts around $15/hr and can skyrocket from there. About 63% of traditional and digital artists are self employed and many of them earn even more than salaried artists. Just knowing these figures is enough to make some want to run out and enroll in the closest art school. However, there…
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On 9 Feb, 2004 With
So you have decided that you want to paint and draw. Maybe you are the sort of person that really enjoyed art at school though you discovered you were not one of the few that it came to naturally. Are someone who is retired and has had a set of watercolors sitting on top of your desk or on a shelf for years. Maybe you are someone who aspires to have a go at some kind drawing and painting however you have no real idea in your mind of where or how to begin, and maybe you have had a bad experience with your art back in school and you think there is no hope now! A lot people think…
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On 31 Dec, 2003 With
Calligraphic writing is uniform in style and has proportionately constructed letters and accurately spaced letters and words. The name derives from the Greek kailos meaning beauty, and graphein to write.Fine penmanship has been distinguished from functional writing since ancient times. In ancient Greece professional scribes copied important civil, literary, and religious texts in elegant scripts. In many Oriental countries, particularly China and Japan, calligraphy is regarded as the greatest of the visual arts and considered an art form that is superior to painting.In Europe during the 4th and 5th centuries books were written in square capitals (‘majuscules’) derived from classical Roman inscriptions (Trajan’s Column in Rome is the outstanding example). The rustic capitals of the same period were written more…
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On 4 Oct, 2003 With
The first phase of the oil painting process consists of drawing the scene on your canvas. Here are a few tips: * Drawing – Unless you are into complete abstract art (and even then) it is absolutely necessary that you have some drawing skills. In fact, personally, I almost always start a painting with a drawing, be it in charcoal, graphite pencil, or thin paint. I find it reassuring that, by the time I start the real painting, the whole scene is already in place. * The Four Basic Shapes – I base my drawings on four basic geometric shapes: the sphere, the cylinder, the cone, and the cube. Just about every object can be built from these four forms….
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