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September 28, 2009

Let’s Keep Drawing

Filed under: drawing — Tags: baby, child, draw, expression, eye, face, people, practice — @ 7:31 am

If you want to draw, at some point you will probably need to draw a face some people think they are too difficult and just stay away from them altogether.

Faces can be broken down into basisc shapes and lines just the same as all other types of drawing. Faces have a lot of changing expressions that give an indication of mood this makes them interesting to draw.

Before you are ready to draw spend some time examining the basic shapes and the lines that make up a face. Consider how they differ from person to person and from baby to child to adult.

Practice making expressions in front of the mirror, look for changes in the lines on your face especially around your eyes, mouth and forehead. Most faces are oval in nature similar to an egg round at the top and narrower at the bottom.

Just for fun and before you get to serious though do some basic practice drawings to get an idea of how the lines in different facial expressions lie.

Draw 4 circles all the same size.
Use the ‘c’ shape to make noses and mouths all the same size.
Use the ‘Þ’ shape and a dot in the centre to make the eye and move them around to create different facial expressions.

Remember that all you are doing for now, is looking for simple overall shapes and lines and how they fit together. At this stage you are not concerned with detail that can come later.

Have Fun

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September 27, 2009

Anyone Can Draw

Filed under: drawing — Tags: drawing, image, life, love, people, picture, shapes — @ 7:45 am

If you would love to draw but always say you can’t or don’t know how to well nows the time to reconsider.

Drawing isn’t really difficult, of course some people find it easier than others just like most other things in life. That doesn’t mean that you can’t learn a few tricks that with practice will have you drawing alongside the most capable drawers.

If drawing is something you love to do than why not. Here are few new ways to consider what it takes to call yourself a good drawer.

Drawing is a combination of lines carefully observed and put onto paper or other similar medium. To put simply, look, see, draw. The key is in learning how to ‘see’.

When you look at an image you would like to draw consider what the simple shapes and lines are. Don’t get confused or bogged down by details drawing is a process that starts with the simplest form first and than slowly builds up to a completed picture.

So to start with you are just going to concentrate on drawing the simple lines and shapes first. Before you actually start to draw practice looking for these shapes and lines. You are already familiar with them and can also already draw them.

The basic lines are very closely related to the letters of the alphabet and with only slight adjustments will form your drawing, now remember this is just the beginning, once you have accomplised a few drawings and your confidence grows you will be able to produce more complicated pictures. The basic lines and shapes however will always be present.

Think Positive

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