How to draw is easy for some and a
challenge for others. Some come by it naturally while others have to learn
to draw. There are many different drawing techniques that can be used and
no one is the only correct way. I always feel that "What works for You" is
the right way.
One of the
easiest ways I found for learning to draw was by using a grid.
It made me look at the relationship of lines in a limited area, and when you put all the
blocks together, you come up with a complete picture.
The main thing is
that it makes you look at lines and how they relate.
It forces you to only look at the lines in a small square,(a 1 inch
square was used in the video).
It is repetitive so that by the time you have finished,
you have practiced looking at line relationship many times
And the good thing is, that you come up with a completed picture
when you are done.
What if You Want to Change the Size?
There are two
things that you can do.
You can make the size of the square you are sketching into different than the size
of the square on the original you are copying from.
For instance, supposed you want the new one to be twice the size of the
original? All you have to do is make the square twice the size of the
original square. If you have a 1 inch square on the original than use a 2
inch square on the drawing.
You can scan the one you've finished and make it any size
you want.
How Do You Transfer the Drawing onto Your Canvas?
You can trace it
onto the surface you will be painting on using Graphite Tracing
Paper. Be sure it is Graphite Tracing Paper, not Carbon Tracing Paper.
Graphite Tracing Paper
Will not smudge like Carbon Paper
Is easily erasable where you don't want it to show
Will not deaden your colors by introducing black into the paint.
Side Bar: A device was developed by Albrecht Duerer in the
sixteenth century to help him with prospective and proportion (exactly what I use it for). Since photography, scanning
and computers were not around then, he had to build an actual
physical device that he could look through to see his subject.
He
then drew square by square, looking at line relationships, to
accomplish what he wanted. You can read more about him in
"The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" by Betty
Edwards.
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