Drawing Course Outline- Seeing as an Artist Sees

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This course combines:

Drawing Right Brain exercises to create many different styles of drawing

Experimentation with Wet & Dry Medium

Exploration of a variety of Subject Matter

One way to eliminate the mystery and to help you see differently is by using the
following artistic conventions

View finder, thumb and pencil measurement, and grid. Limit view by squinting,
stand back from work

1. Drawing Perceptions.
Why Draw? What does a good drawing look like? Skill, and artistic
conventions verses magical ability i.e. talent
The Right Brain mode.
Daniel Pink-Learning to Draw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2aI08U9wAA&feature=related
Age of Abundance, Asia, Automation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syo6ecgclR0&feature=related

Course content and Syllabus- show overview

Connecting with the paper and Pre-instruction drawing, hand & chair

Figure Gesture Drawing

2. Positive / Negative Space & shape considering composition & cropping

Power point examples
Kitchen Utensils
Stool
Cat Tails
 Plants flowers
Upside down drawing of full body Animals or Cars
3. Blind Contour
Edges and contours
Self Portrait slowing down
do not start with head instead begin with the nose and work outward

http://studiojuliakay.com/portraitproject/2008_05_01_archive.html

The Portrait proportions

4. Value Atmospheric Perspective

Value and Form Cylinders and Spheres, Ellipses Still Life

The Perspective Drawing of a Circle

A circle in perspective is called an ellipse. The drawing of ellipses is controlled by rectangular perspective.

Our drawing above of an ellipse illustrates this technique. There are two distinct stages in its creation:

fig.1 The circle is first visualized in plan form on a flat square grid . Each section of the grid contains one
quarter of the circle.

fig.2 The square grid is distorted according to the laws of perspective. The circle is then redrawn onto the
distorted grid to create an ellipse.

The diagonals of the grid have been drawn on both illustrations to help with the plotting of the circle and
ellipse.
 The Perspective Drawing of a Cylinder

Before you study the perspective of a cylinder, it helps if you understand the perspective of a circle which is explained
on the previous page.

A cylinder is simply a circle which is projected into three dimensions.

Figure 1

This is an illustration of a cylinder which is formed by a circle being projected vertically from the ground plane.

The ellipses that outline the cylinder are all the same width. However, the roundness of their curves gradually
increases as they rise above or drop below eye level.

Note how the ellipse at the eye level is seen as a straight line.

Figure 2

This is an illustration of a cylinder which is formed by a circle being projected horizontally from the picture plane.

The circular curves that form the cylinder are all the same shape, but their scale reduces as they recede from the
picture plane towards the vanishing point.

Both of our examples use one point perspective, the simplest form of perspective drawing.
 The Technique of Perpective Drawing

Perspective Drawing is a technique used to represent three-dimensional images on a two-dimensional picture plane.
In our series of lessons on perspective drawing we explain the various methods of constructing an image with
perspective and show how these are used by artists and illustrators.

"Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship..There are three aspects to
perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to distance: the second, the
manner in which colors change the farther away they are from the eye; the third defines how objects ought to be
finished less carefully the farther away they are." (Leonardo da Vinci)

Perspective was developed in the 15th century by the architects, Leon Baptista Alberti (1404-72) and Filippo
Brunelleschi (1377-1446). For 500 years, perspective drawing remained one of the basic principles of Western art
until it was challenged by the ideas of the Cubists at the start of the 20th century. Whether you are working with
conventional materials such as pencils and paints, or contemporary digital media, a knowledge and understanding of
perspective drawing remains an essential tool to help you enhance your drawing technique.

There are two main elements in perspective drawing:

Linear Perspective which deals with the organisation of shapes in space

Aerial Perspective which deals with the atmospheric effects on tones and colours.

You can see how both of these elements work in our illustration above of some ancient ruins:

The black and white image displays an example of Linear Perspective. It shows some of the lines of construction
used to arrange the blocks and columns to create an illusion of depth and distance.

If you mouse over the black and white image it should reveal a coloured and textured version of the scene. This
displays the atmospheric effects of Aerial Perspective. You can see how the tones weaken and the colours pale as
they recede from your view.

Both linear and aerial perspectives combine to create this convincing illusion of three dimensions on a two
dimensional plane.

http://www.artyfactory.com/perspective_drawing/perspective_7.htm

5. Linear Perspective: the Trapezoid & Rhombus

Drawing polygons