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Protractor How to draw lines under an angle or how can you make sure your lines are parallel to each other? There are a few important things. First, you'll obviously need a protractor and a pencil mark which you can use to put light lines with, for example, HB or 2H. This is a practical blog post so take some drawing paper so you immediately practice. Using your protractor you can: drawing parallel lines. measuring angles, for example, to draw something in isometric or perspective. Oké, but how can you use this? I'm going to explain and show you! A triangle has a lot of numbers, and this can…

  You can put a line on paper with different materials. You can, of course, use the familiar pencil, but also with pens, fine liners, markers, brushes or pens. Lines are the basic element of a drawing, with a line you make your shapes, textures, tones, etc. There are different types of lines which you can use in your drawing. There are different sort of lines, a few examples: Straight lines Thin and thick lines curved lines ribbed lines curved lines angular lines puckered lines dotted lines dashed lines   You can use these different lines to draw your object. A cat can, for example, be drawn with ribbed…

Texture The surface of an object is also called texture. That is, what you can see and feel. To be able to draw an object realistically there are a few things you should know about texture. Rendering of the surface means that you realistically imitating the surface. For example, if you are using a pencil to draw a silk fabric so that you can almost feel the soft material, it is very realistic. Before you arrive at this point you have to practice. Start with something easy. Structure, texture, facture, what is what? Structure, which is about how the surface is constructed. Thus, for example, in a linen cloth, the…

Guidelines Guidelines are important, almost everyone uses them in varying degrees. In the beginning, you use them a lot and later when you have more practice, you can make it with fewer guidelines. In my classes, I call guidelines the cheat sheets of drawing. You use the guidelines but makes them disappear again by erasing or painting if your work is almost done. Nobody needs to know how you have built up the drawing once it is finished.   Practice 1 Draw a freehand circle. A piece of printer paper is fine. Think of it as a warming-up exercise. It is okay if it does not work perfectly on…

Shape We have several basic shapes you can create using lines. When you combine these shapes you can create the illusion of depth and space. The most simple 3D shapes cube, sphere, cylinder, cone. With this shapes, you can build most objects you see in the world. The basic shapes are easy to draw when you know the steps. Look at the images below to draw the basic shapes step-by-step. Is that too difficult? Check out the first blog post about drawing basic shapes.   Proportions Shapes are in relation to each other. One object may be larger than another. If you check how large the object is in relation…

Value scale A value scale is made out of different tones of a color. Not musical tones, but lighter or darker version of a color. Below is a scale from light to dark. This may have gray tones but you can use any color for a scale. Scale Draw five spaces next to each other of 5 by 5 centimeters (or inches). Or just download the stencil. For this assignment, it is fine if you have a 2H, HB and a 2B pencil. Only HB will also work. But this gives you a fewer possibilities in the deep tones dark and very light ones. Pencils Pencils are available in…

Basic shapes The most important are: Sphere Cube Cylinder Kegel Fold your drawing paper in half and then fold it again. Unfold. You can draw one shape on each part of the paper. If you already read the post about guidelines, you are able to draw a circle, which is exactly the way you draw a sphere. Didn't see it or forgot? See the animated graphic below or see the full explanation in the other post. Circle   Cylinder De cylinder is almost the same like the sphere, but the vertical line is a bit shorter. That's why the shape is a bit flatter. This is called an ellipse.…