07-23-2015, 03:52 AM
Today, I was reading through SuccessfulDrawing by Loomis. The hours flew by by doing these perspective exercises or studies rather.
Just wondering whether the techniques he showed in the book on cones and spheres. Are we supposed to train ourselves to visually think like that when drawing from observation mentally or just rough em in during observational sketches n clean em up.
So what comes first, the box or the layers of the object when drawing from observation?
Second, use the pencil measurinh technique to get reference points and then angle in the lines or draw roughly the direction the object faces and work ny way from there coz thats exactly what i did but my accuracy if copying falls off. When I copy I approach drawings differently but my goal is not to copy and stiffen things out but to observe, analyze, breakdown and translate.
Maybe I am just babbling to myself...
@Amit: Perspective today. Will work on my figures soon.
By the way. I study on a completely flat surface. Any ideas on how to avoid distortion. Kinda sucks when i repeat stuff but due to distortions my images appear weird.
Posted a picture of my work area. It is a floor table.
I tried feng zhu's sitting and drawing at an arms length suggestion from Design cinema episode 36 and that does solve it quite but I can't see my image clearly since I am far away by sitting at an arm's length and I can't properly use my shoulder when I do that. Used my scanner by the way instead of using my smartphone camera. Apps are so useful for connecting scanners to smartphones :D
Just wondering whether the techniques he showed in the book on cones and spheres. Are we supposed to train ourselves to visually think like that when drawing from observation mentally or just rough em in during observational sketches n clean em up.
So what comes first, the box or the layers of the object when drawing from observation?
Second, use the pencil measurinh technique to get reference points and then angle in the lines or draw roughly the direction the object faces and work ny way from there coz thats exactly what i did but my accuracy if copying falls off. When I copy I approach drawings differently but my goal is not to copy and stiffen things out but to observe, analyze, breakdown and translate.
Maybe I am just babbling to myself...
@Amit: Perspective today. Will work on my figures soon.
By the way. I study on a completely flat surface. Any ideas on how to avoid distortion. Kinda sucks when i repeat stuff but due to distortions my images appear weird.
Posted a picture of my work area. It is a floor table.
I tried feng zhu's sitting and drawing at an arms length suggestion from Design cinema episode 36 and that does solve it quite but I can't see my image clearly since I am far away by sitting at an arm's length and I can't properly use my shoulder when I do that. Used my scanner by the way instead of using my smartphone camera. Apps are so useful for connecting scanners to smartphones :D