Today I will show you how to turn a circle into a 3-dimensional sphere, ball, or orb. In order to turn a circle into a sphere, you will need to use specific shading techniques to accomplish this. In this tutorial, I use graphite pencils, H, 2B, 3B, and 4B. This lesson will help you learn how to shade a beautiful sphere.
Here is a basic guide to using geometric shapes, such as the cube, cylinder, sphere, pyramid, and cone to draw things you see in every day life.
Figuring out what size to draw people, animals, figures, and objects within an illustration is one of the hardest aspects of drawing, in my opinion. However, using perspective techniques will allow you to properly size things in relation to each other. The following cartooning tutorial will guide you through the process.
Today we will show you how to draw or animate the human figure walking or running. This drawing lesson is perfect for the person who wants to make an animation of a person walking or running...or for the artist who needs references of walking figures.
Learn how to draw a person's chest and torso with the following drawing lesson. This tutorial will guide you through the process that artists use to draw the male and female torso.
If you have never drawn a portrait of a human face, then this is a good starting point.
The human body is a work of art in itself and it seems impossible to draw it. However, there are proportions of the body that you should memorize and always keep in the back of your mind...and once you do this, the human body isn't so hard to draw at all. It is just these facts that should pull all everything together for you. Bookmark this page and come back to it for when you need it.
Drawing the face and head can be done without perspective techniques, however, it comes in handy when drawing it in relation to other objects or people. It also is very effective in helping the artist draw the human face and head when it is on a slant or tilt. This is when drawing faces becomes difficult.
Everything that is drawn realistically is drawing with the laws of perspective, even if the artist doesn't realize that he or she is using them. Today we will tell you how to use perspective drawing techniques to draw more realistic human faces and heads.
Your body and face are all basically in a specific proportion with everyone else. Of course people have different sized noses, chins, brows, etc....but, within a certain margin, you can know that the face will have certain measurements, within means.
Learn how to draw, shade, and highlight drapery and clothing folds. There are many forms that make up a fold and many different types of folds to learn how to draw. The following tutorial is a great guide to folds...so book mark this page and come back to it when you need it.
Today we will show you how to draw a realistic baby face with the correct proportions. Drawing an adult face is hard enough, baby faces are so much more difficult. This article is also a reference sheet to the correct proportions of a baby and toddler head/face.
Drawing the human figure doesn't just come down to talent, it also comes down to knowing some match and proportional knowledge. This tutorial is full of guidelines that you should save or memorize and use in all of your future artwork that contains people.
We will show you each step to be taken in shading a cube in this tutorial, for this solid is a representative of all prisms, and, indirectly, of the cylinder. Place the cube on a sheet of light brown paper, and pin against the wall behind it a similar sheet to serve for background. Let the light fall from the right and from above the cube. The top face will be the brightest of those seen, and the darkest will necessarily be that next the cast-shadow.
Draw the cube carefully (reference this cube drawing tutorial here)and lightly in charcoal. Incorrect lines may be removed by dusting with the tinder. Do not draw with black-lead, as it is greasy, and will afterwards appear white in your shading.
This is one of those things that they really didn't teach me in art school...how to show age progression of a face. Here is some how-to tips for drawing old people's faces and hands. I hope that it helps you.
A child's face and head is considerably different from an adult's face and head. That is why we need to learn the correct proportions of a child's head before trying to draw it. This article will educate you on the measurements of a child's head and guide you to drawing them in a thoughtful manner.
Sketching a live model can be tough, it is a lot of pressure to work fast and to get all the details while staring at a live human being. It is also hard to get the right pose. This lesson will guide you through that process.
Here is some background information about the face, its measurements and proportions. This is important to know to draw the head correctly. This article also goes over how to draw the facial expressions and emotions.
Here is in article all about drawing facial expressions and emotions on the human face. The drawing lesson can be found below...
Learn how to see the whites, grays, and blacks in your drawings so you can form 3-dimensional objects. Drawing the light and shadows in forms and objects is a hard thing to learn, but hopefully this tutorial will give you some methods and techniques to use in your future drawings.
Find out how to use your pencil effectively when representing your 3-dimensional object on a 2-dimensional piece of paper. The direction of your pencil strokes matter, in this article you will find out which direction to draw your pencil strokes in order to create the illusion of 3-dimensional objects.
Here is a blurb from an old book that sheds light on how artists use to figure out the correct measurements and proportions of the human body.
Because of the unusual shape of the hips, a simple concept must be conceived. Like the head it is square in concept and is tilted forward. It has six planes, front, back, two side top where the cage is attached and bottom where the legs come from. The hips consist of three major bones. The Pubis, the Illium in front and the Ischium behind. The lower end of the spinal column is wedged in between both blades at the Sacrum. The hips can bend with the cage or twist opposite the cage in many positions because of the spaces in the vertebra.
Physiognomists usually recognize five distinct types of profile: the convex, concave, perpendicular, convex-concave, and concave-convex. With each of these profile shapes there are different personality traits that these type of people usually have....find out how these profiles are classed in the following drawing tutorial.
How to Draw human legs and feet with illustrated human anatomy of the legs and feet to help you learn to draw them properly.
Learn techniques for drawing with pencils with the following lesson for how to draw and shade with pencils.
A study of the human body and figure with the following drawing lessons of the human body, head, face, facial features and body proportions of children, women, and adults.
Learn how you draw figures and shapes in motion and in action with the following drawing lesson and tutorial for drawing shapes in movement.
Arranging simple objects, such as kitchen utensils, fruits, etc., to make a pleasing composition is very good training for a student. Following are a few simple rules of composition which will prove helpful in your advanced work, as well as in still life.
There are three principal methods of expression in pictorial work: outline drawing, mass drawing and color work. The most important of these methods to the beginner is mass drawing.