Drawing

• In a sense, all drawing is the same. Drawing is about projecting how you see the world onto a medium. Artists have a unique way of seeing the world.
  • In order to draw a perceived subject — something seen with the eyes, requires a shift to using the more visual-spatial aspects of the mind instead of our more symbolic, semantic, language-dominated perception.
  • Ask yourself questions related to space rather than to the subject itself. Think in terms of lines, shapes and curves
  • Draw what you see without thinking about what it is. ¹
• The fundamental skills of drawing are as follows:
  • Perceiving edges — the shared edges or boundaries between two objects
  • Perceiving space
    • Perceiving negative space is important especially for complex contours. If you can see the negative space and draw its boundary, you will have drawn the original object
  • Perceiving relationships — includes proportion and perspective
  • Perceiving lights and shadows (i.e., shading)
  • Perceiving the whole — composition
• Drawing is nothing but copying the thing you see. That being said, drawing also allows the artist to put into the medium, the unique way they see the world.

• SunnyClockwork has an interesting Artstyle. Simple but really iconic

Topics §

• Construction Drawing

• Composition

• Perspective Drawing

• Anatomical Drawing

• Pixel Art

• Vector Art

• Shading

Links §

• Creativity

• Gelbooru - a good repository for finding anime-style art.

• Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Edwards - beginner-level book for starting how to draw.

• Ctrl Paint Library - a repository of videos for learning how to draw

Footnotes §

1. Edwards shows this using the exercise of drawing an image upside down. This reduces our “inner voice’s” tendency to semantically describe the image. We rely only on the visual information ↩