How To

Let's start with some basic rules: The eyes are in the middle of the face. The nose is on the half of the bottom half of the face. The hairline is on the half of the upper half of the face. The lips are under the nose, just a little above the middle of the bottom quart. How do you start? Start with a vertical line on paper, then put a shorter horizontal line in the middle of this line. Now connect the ends of the lines with sketch lines, this way you draw the oval for the shape of the face. Note, put light sketch lines because these…

Maybe you never thought about it, but for drawing it is a very good idea to warm-up before you begin. How should you begin? You can randomly scribble on a paper and then begin drawing. But I have a few more drawing tips for you. Why should you warm-up? Why do you need to do a warming-up for drawing? Of course, you do not háve to! But it is very useful when the muscles in your hand and arm completely at your disposal. Compare it with darts. If you are just starting, you are happy if you hit the dartboard at all. The more you practice you get the…

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…