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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 12:49 am
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 2:14 am
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Hands are hard.
I suggest to draw hands without looking at the paper.
Let me explain:
Get some paper and a pencil. Put them on a flat surface and ready to draw. Before drawing, look at your hand and turn your body away from the paper. Face the opposite direction. Now, with your free hand, draw what you see with your hand. Don't worry if it looks like sh!t. It's meant to. Keep doing this, and slowly progress from your normal hand, to it being closed, holding objects, etc.
When doing this, you will also want to not release the pencil from the paper. No sketching. Sketching will only result in little knowledge. Only lift your pencil up from the paper if necessary.
After a while of drawing this, go from never looking at your paper to only looking at it 10% of the time. And when you do, don't think 'oh, I'm drawing a hand' think 'I'm drawing lines'. Don't sketch this time either. Just lines. This will train your brain into working with only the right side, the creative, artistic side. The reason why we're so bad at drawing is because we use the left side of the brain, the logical side. This isn't helpful when it comes to creating art.
Now, another thing is negative space. This is when you draw the spaces around an object, not drawing the object itself.
http://www.electricscotland.com/art/space.jpg
This is a very good picture that represents negative space and what it is. This picture is in my Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain college textbook. See all of the black? Well, the person only drew the outline of the white, instead of drawing the animal slowly by adding details. This will only result in using the left side of the brain, which will put you back to stage 1, which is not a good stage to be when learning how to draw.
If you have any more questions please feel free to either quote this or send me a Private Message.
Just to inform you I am a college student majoring in art. I'm becoming an animator and am learning many different techniques to better my art skills.
Hope this all has helped.
~Chi
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 3:20 am
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ChioroKisa Hands are hard. I suggest to draw hands without looking at the paper. Let me explain: Get some paper and a pencil. Put them on a flat surface and ready to draw. Before drawing, look at your hand and turn your body away from the paper. Face the opposite direction. Now, with your free hand, draw what you see with your hand. Don't worry if it looks like sh!t. It's meant to. Keep doing this, and slowly progress from your normal hand, to it being closed, holding objects, etc. When doing this, you will also want to not release the pencil from the paper. No sketching. Sketching will only result in little knowledge. Only lift your pencil up from the paper if necessary. After a while of drawing this, go from never looking at your paper to only looking at it 10% of the time. And when you do, don't think 'oh, I'm drawing a hand' think 'I'm drawing lines'. Don't sketch this time either. Just lines. This will train your brain into working with only the right side, the creative, artistic side. The reason why we're so bad at drawing is because we use the left side of the brain, the logical side. This isn't helpful when it comes to creating art. Now, another thing is negative space. This is when you draw the spaces around an object, not drawing the object itself. http://www.electricscotland.com/art/space.jpgThis is a very good picture that represents negative space and what it is. This picture is in my Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain college textbook. See all of the black? Well, the person only drew the outline of the white, instead of drawing the animal slowly by adding details. This will only result in using the left side of the brain, which will put you back to stage 1, which is not a good stage to be when learning how to draw. If you have any more questions please feel free to either quote this or send me a Private Message. Just to inform you I am a college student majoring in art. I'm becoming an animator and am learning many different techniques to better my art skills. Hope this all has helped. ~Chi You are an amazing person Thank you so much, I'm sure this will help me.
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 4:10 am
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Darky1235 ChioroKisa Hands are hard. I suggest to draw hands without looking at the paper. Let me explain: Get some paper and a pencil. Put them on a flat surface and ready to draw. Before drawing, look at your hand and turn your body away from the paper. Face the opposite direction. Now, with your free hand, draw what you see with your hand. Don't worry if it looks like sh!t. It's meant to. Keep doing this, and slowly progress from your normal hand, to it being closed, holding objects, etc. When doing this, you will also want to not release the pencil from the paper. No sketching. Sketching will only result in little knowledge. Only lift your pencil up from the paper if necessary. After a while of drawing this, go from never looking at your paper to only looking at it 10% of the time. And when you do, don't think 'oh, I'm drawing a hand' think 'I'm drawing lines'. Don't sketch this time either. Just lines. This will train your brain into working with only the right side, the creative, artistic side. The reason why we're so bad at drawing is because we use the left side of the brain, the logical side. This isn't helpful when it comes to creating art. Now, another thing is negative space. This is when you draw the spaces around an object, not drawing the object itself. http://www.electricscotland.com/art/space.jpgThis is a very good picture that represents negative space and what it is. This picture is in my Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain college textbook. See all of the black? Well, the person only drew the outline of the white, instead of drawing the animal slowly by adding details. This will only result in using the left side of the brain, which will put you back to stage 1, which is not a good stage to be when learning how to draw. If you have any more questions please feel free to either quote this or send me a Private Message. Just to inform you I am a college student majoring in art. I'm becoming an animator and am learning many different techniques to better my art skills. Hope this all has helped. ~Chi You are an amazing person Thank you so much, I'm sure this will help me.
Thank you c: I hope it will.
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Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 2:19 am
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 12:44 pm
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