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One of the skills that must be acquired by any artist is the ability to portray three dimensional shapes on the two dimensional page. This is done by creating areas of light and dark in the picture that fool the brain into believing that the image is actually three dimensional. However seeing and then drawing Continue reading Light and Shadow To make a simple viewfinder, get a piece of card the same shape as your drawing paper, although it does not need to be as large. Then draw two diagonals on it, and use these as guides to draw a rectangle in the middle, the same shape as the card itself. The exact size of Continue reading Make Your Viewfinder It is difficult to over-emphasise how important it is to get into the habit of sketching. You need to do sketches wherever and whenever you have the opportunity. So take a small spiral bound sketch book around with you all the time. It only needs to be small – just 7” by 5” will Continue reading Sketching Has it occurred to you that there is more than one way to hold a pencil for drawing? Many new artists simply hold the drawing pencil in the same way as the pen they use to write with and that can be one of the reasons they get disappointing results from their first efforts. There Continue reading How to hold a pencil |
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