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The Fundamental Facts about Drawing

This course covers basic vocabulary, techniques, and tools in drawing, including contour drawing, contrast, chiaroscuro, perspective, and more. Learn how to improve your drawing skills and explore different drawing media.

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The Fundamental Facts about Drawing

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  1. The Fundamental Facts about Drawing COURSE: DRAWING A Jacobson Production

  2. Basic Vocabulary Contour Drawing: a drawing that defines the edges and surface ridges of an object. Flat Line: a dark heavy line quality caused by heavy pressure of the pencil on the paper. Accent Line: A line quality that changes from light to dark as it curves over the edges of and object. Which of these to line do you think you should strive to create?

  3. Basic Vocabulary Contrast: The difference between the light and dark values in an artwork. Value: the element of art that describes the darkness or lightness of an object; also …value depends on how much light a surface reflects. Chiaroscuro: the arrangement of light and shadow, this technique was introduced by Italian artists during the Renaissance Period and used widley by Baroque artists. Chiaroscuro is also called modeling or shading. Which of these to line do you think you should strive to create?

  4. Basic Vocabulary Perspective: a system of drawing that creates the illusion of depth and volume on a two dimensional surface. Proportion: The principle of art concerned with size relationships of one part to another. Gesture: a line drawing that is done quickly to represent movement. Thumbnail sketch: a series of small drawings done to come up with ideas. Rough Out/Draft: a more detail sketch that starts to put more detail into a drawing and works out visual problem prior to putting them on final paper. . Which of these to line do you think you should strive to create?

  5. Basic Drawing Tools

  6. Understanding the Pencil • Pencils come in different grades of lead. • “B” pencils get softer as the number gets higher. • 2B, 3B, 4B, 5B will get very dark • “H” pencils have a harder lead • 2H common pencil you use everyday • 3H, 4H, 5H, 6H will be very light.

  7. Types of Erasers

  8. Types of Erasers Pink Eraser: best when used on a sturdy, smooth paper. It is slightly abrasive and unsuitable for paper that has a lot of tooth Pencil Type Eraser: These are great when you need to erase something in a small area because they can be sharpened to a point. Gum Erasers very soft erasers that tend to be sort of crumbly when used. The crumbs help to absorb the graphite

  9. Types of Erasers The kneaded eraser is the primary type of eraser that most graphite/charcoal artists use. It picks up the graphite without smearing or damaging the paper Vinyl Erasers- Vinyl erasers are made of soft white vinyl. These erasers are the toughest of the bunch. If not used properly, they can easily tear paper. Vinyl erasers can erase almost anything including ink. Many draftsmen prefer vinyl erasers because of their ability to erase cleanly and completely.

  10. Types of Drawing Media(medium is singular) Instruments include various H or B graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, color pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, conte, chalk pastels, oil pastels & marker. Each Assignment will explore the history and characteristics of each of these drawing media. As an artist you will discover what each media can do. The goal is to find out what type of media you like best.

  11. Different Pencil Grips Learning to hold a pencil differently can help you create various typed of lines that will improve your drawing quality.

  12. Techniques to Improve Your Drawing

  13. Drawing Tool Exercise :Measuring Techniques • You think of a pencil for drawing and writing. • A pencil can be used to measure things. • In art when we try to get objects the correct size we call the proportion.

  14. Measuring Techniques • You use your pencil and thumb to measure objects by sliding the thumb to the top of the pencil (A), close one eye, place pencil top on the object and slide thumb down (B). Compare the distances.

  15. Measuring Techniques • You will use this to….. • To help you determine approximate angles of objects. • To assist you to compare sizes of objects • To make objects look more realistic.

  16. Demonstration & time to practice measuring and sighting from the skulls.

  17. Good examples

  18. Self evaluation • How did the stick help you? • What did you notice using the stick that you didn't first see?

  19. Using a View Finder Sometimes a still life may have many objects in it. Its difficult to know what to draw and what not to draw. A viewfinder is a helpful tool that “Crops” out the part if the image you don’t want to draw.

  20. Using a View Finder • Its easy to make- just use scissors to cut a rectangular hole in a sheet of paper. • This tool allows you to isolate only a section of a object to draw • 3. If you don’t have a view finder use your hands.

  21. You can also use your cell phone. Use the camera to zoom in on only part of the image you want to draw. Crop and save the photo.

  22. Using your phone Does you composition look like this? Top of your camera Bottom of your camera

  23. Now on to the next exercise…Time to re-wire your brain….

  24. CREATIVITY & YOUR BRAIN Your left brain controls your right hand & your right brain controls your left hand. . Why do you think artists need to use both sides of their brain?

  25. Continuous Line Drawing What? The idea here is to create a drawing where you never lift your drawing tool from the paper. WHY??? • A Continuous Line Drawing is an exercise to help us focus on the line direction. • It makes you focus more on looking at what you are drawing.

  26. Demonstrations and Continuous Line Drawing of the still life

  27. Why do we want to focus more on what we see when we are drawing? What we think ( left brain) verses what we really see (right brain)

  28. DRAWING EXERCISE 4 : Continuous line drawing of your face Self evaluation • How did not being able to pick up your pencil make you feel? • What do you notice that was better about your drawing than your thought it was going to be?

  29. Blind Contour Drawing

  30. Blind Contour Drawing WHY? Blind contour drawing is an excellent way to train you to… • train your hand and eye to work together for drawing. • Increase your focus on detail • To draw what it really sees rather than what it thinks it sees.

  31. Practice: Blind Contour Drawing of Skull How? • Your eyes are not allowed to look at the paper. • Your eye and hand must move very slowly as one. • At no time should you look at your paper as you draw.

  32. Practice Draw the skull again keep your eye on the object not the paper, don’t pick up your marker, draw slow and LARGE as big as the paper.

  33. Questions to Ponder What turned out better than you thought? What things did you notice MORE about the shape of the skull- because you absolutely had to focus on the skull?

  34. Positive and Negative Space

  35. Negative SpaceWhat is Positive and Negative Space & How do I learn to see it? TRY THIS…. Hold your hand up in front of your face. Squint and look at the space between the fingers. Notice the wavy lines and organic shapes. If you cant see this space try shifting your view from the hand to the background and back and forth. Your logical mind will fight you on this.

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