... plane
to take with you wherever you go, and how to use both of these tools to help with your drawings.
Your first drawings will concentrate on learning to see an object in space, using a contour ... mix.
Part 2
Now You Are Ready to Draw
It’s time to meet some of the tools of the trade, including the view finder frame and the plastic
picture plane. We’ll show you how to make your...
... there: see to draw.
The rest is up to you!
Being in an altered state
of consciousness helps
you see and draw what’s
really there.
The Least You Need to Know
➤ You don’t have to be a magician to learn ... the rest of the world may fade into the background. The right
side, after all, is not a timekeeper.
As a first step toward learning to shift your brain from left to right, let’s...
... really a way to think about your arrangement so that it is as pleasing as pos-
sible after you have gone to the trouble to draw it.
Collect more objects than you did in Chapter 8, “How to Get Started.” ... decide to see, from what position you de-
cide to see it, and how you decide to put the image on the page. While
a lot has been written about composition, experience is still...
... chart.
Here is a filled-in tonal
chart.
In this tonal chart,
we’ve filled in the bot-
tom row of tones to
match the top row.
Your tonal chart gives you an idea of the tonal range that you can use ... range from white to light to
medium to dark.
Now, on the lower row, practice matching the various tones you made on the top of the
chart. Start by trying to match the darkest tone. Keep...
... the angle you want to draw relative to your pencil, decide on the relative difference between
your pencil and the line you want to draw, and draw it in.
Back to That Race to the Finish Line
Additional ... page of marks similar to the page you created in Chapter
7, “A Room of Your Own.” You can create a tonal chart with any
new mark or texture to see how you can use it to hand...
... from top to bottom or across?
➤ Does a curve start in one box and travel to another before
it disappears?
➤ And then what?
5. Uncap your marker and decide on a place to start.
6. Start to draw ... aside the time to draw can be a great gift to give to yourself or someone you
love.
➤ Peace and serenity are hard to come by in our world. Drawing as a meditation can
be the path to...
... farmhouse into the Land of Oz, the color was a revelation—
to her, to Toto, and to us.
Moving into the realm of color in your drawing is a big deal, too. But never fear—we’re
here to help, with ... don’t have to have a lot of skill, as many of
today’s cartoons reveal. The trick with humorous cartoons like comic strips is consistency,
making your characters look the same from frame...
... (language designed to confuse you) to deal with and experience. Specific
courses for complicated graphics programs like Photoshop, Quark, or Illustrator are very
helpful places to start.
Our advice:
➤ ... colors from
warm to cool.
Try Your Hand
To learn about color, make your-
self lots of small tonal charts for
the colors you have. Try for gra-
dations of tone in an individual
colo...
... Flow 35
To Begin 36
The Next Set—Send Off the Logical Left 36
Contour Drawing of Your Hand—Without Looking 37
Contour Drawing of Your Hand—While Looking 38
Another Set to Keep It Gone 40
Contour ... Kitchel
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