Color and Light
Learn to separate the drawing into different planes
Overview
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Recommended Settings: Nude and Both Genders
Here you will practice bringing awareness to the ability of your mind and eye to perceive dimensionality and depth.
For these pieces you may use your own figure references.
Materials: Ink and Brush
Alternative materials: Watercolor, charcoal stick, or whatever medium you have.
Brief Lecture on Planes
Materials:
- Setup the materials above
- You may also setup a still life instead of a figure or picture
Duration: 10 minutes
- Look at the negative space only and block it in.
- Do not try to draw out the figure itself with the block in by blocking in an outline. Draw in the negative space only.
- ncluding a foreground and background
Scribble Gesture: 5 Gesture for 30 sec/each
- Do a gesture drawing without lifting your pencil or worrying about lines. Represent the figures movement in a scribble.
Line of Action: 5 Gesture for 30 sec/each
- Represent the figure in less than 7 lines. You can use the previous five poses.
Negative Space Block-in
Materials: Same as Above
Duration: 65 minutes
Use C and S curves to represent active and passive muscles. Show tension with sharp corners and weight with dark, thick, and sharp lines. Learn to communicate with the line through practice of rhythm, repetition, tapering, line quality, composition, and curves. Consider the side of the pencil for broad strokes. What influence would that have on the gesture?
Rhythm and repetition are great tools. for guiding the viewer's eye. Use proper compositional spacing between your lines to tell the viewers eye where it needs to be. The eye goes to contrast, use that predictability to your advantage.
If your picture can't move and you need to cause movement, then you'll have to move the viewer.
Gesture: 5 Gesture for 5 min/each
- Take an unreasonable length of time to look at the figure without drawing despite the time limit
- Find the head and line of action, don't be afraid to exaggerate. Capture this line with one stroke.
- Work your way through out the body and motion until the time is up.
- I will alert you when it is time to stop.
Gesture: 1 Gesture for 15 min
- Repeat Steps 1-4
Long Gesture: 25 min
- Repeat Steps 1-4
- You'll find yourself exploring the gesture of line itself. Use broad and precise strokes. Compose the entire complete gesture. Explore.
Ink Gesture
Materials:
- Ink, Brush, Water, and Containers
- (alternatively) Tone down acrylic paint with water
- Pole, stick, and masking tape
- Large Drawing Clipboard Setup at Eye-level
- (optional) Human Model
- 18 by 24 inch Bristol or Watercolor Paper
- (alternatively) Whatever paper you have, be aware it may buckle
Duration: 55 (25 and 35) minutes
Using ink as the medium will train your percision and confidence.
15 Stroke Gesture: 5 Gesture for 7 min/each
- Take an unreasonable length of time to look at the figure without drawing despite the time limit.
- Complete this exercise in only 15 Strokes. Consider it a complete stroke when you put down a line and manipulate it while its wet. Moving to another line would be a second stroke.
- I will alert you when it is time to stop.
Long Gesture: 2 Gesture for 25 min
- Take an unreasonable length of time to look at the figure without drawing despite the time limit.
- Complete the gesture.
- I will alert you when it is time to stop.
Submit for Critique
If you did not use the same reference we did on the stream, submit your picture. Include your Twitch name if you do this exercise on a different day after the stream as critiques will be exchanged for !Kokos. If you used a stock photo from a DeviantArt page be kind enough to drop them a link of what you did! Follow their Stock Rules.
Submit via Google Forms
OR
Submit in #drawing_lessons on Discord