Drawing Techniques: Lessons, Tutorials, and Tips for Artists and Illustrators

Gripping Tutorials on How to Draw Hands | Maca is Rambling Sharebar The human hand, for some of us, is one of the most challenging things to master drawing. It is important especially for those who are serious about pursuing a career in drawing. As someone who has been drawing for the rest of his life, I had my fair share of drawings with the character’s hands somehow hidden from view just to hide the fact that I can’t draw them. Just click on each tutorial to go to the artist’s page and download the full size. Mini Hand Tutorial by nk-chan Clawed Hand Tutorial by Mytherea Drawing Hands by Paperwick Hand Tutorial 2 by Qinni -Hands Tutorial- by odduckoasis Hands Tutorial by JohnYume About maca Hello, my name is Karlo Macariola.

Drawing Fundamentals I Course Outline PDF HERE Handouts PDF HERE Week One: Introduction Course introduction; artistic perception; basic composition elements; dot, line & plane; linear expressions; organizational drawing techniques; LINE- sketching ; “how to start” drawing techniques “spider web” using HB pencil;the quality of line (emotion, Paul Klee, outline, contour); What is "duende"? COMPOSITION- introduction to the composition schemes, plane (hierarchy, static & dynamic), Kandinsky's "visual music" Materials: various pencils Homework: fill up the pocket-size sketchbook with (at least 20 sketches) using LINE & COMPOSITION. For inspiration- please visit the Moleskine journals online Artists sketchbooks online here Drawing resources for teachers here Drawing tutorials and links here Drawing for beginners online lessons here Wiki on drawing here Michelangelo's drawings at the British Museum here (PDF) Michelangelo's technique here Paul Klee drawings/collection here Kandinsky all works here

How to Draw With Perspective In this tutorial, we will look at photographs as well as drawn examples to familiarize ourselves with the basic principles of perspective and how it can affect your drawings. Perspective can be used to suggest the illusion of 3D elements on a 2D canvas. When perspective is 'off' in a drawing, even untrained eyes will notice. Using basic perspective techniques will allow you to manipulate your compositions to your favour; even giving fictional drawings a sense of realism. Let's make a New (Cmd+N) canvas and get started. We'll begin with a 'one-point' perspective. If we were to draw a box and prism, the x-axis and y-axis would be drawn as normal (black squares in the example), but lines going along the z-axis would follow the perspective lines angled towards the vanishing point. Changing the horizon line can give our composition some more ground space to view and may be more effective in situations where we would depict land masses or communicate designs from a more top-revealing angle.

Understanding Perspective - Cartooning As the cans rise above the horizon line, you can see their bottoms. Below the horizon line, you see their tops. In the middle you see neither. Look at the illustration of the soda cans. You'll notice several cans drawn one above another. As an object moves vertically, its relation to the horizon line determines how it is drawn. The other basic principle of perspective describes an object as it moves farther and farther away from the viewer. Much of the perspective you will learn in this chapter will feel very much like geometry.

Linear Perspective - Cartooning The first step in drawing a scene in linear perspective is to establish a horizon line. As mentioned earlier, this is assumed to be the reader's eye level. If you start out with a high horizon line, the scene will look as if the viewer were flying overhead. A low horizon line will result in a scene in which the scenery and characters tower over the reader. The concepts of linear perspective were originated by Filippo Brunelleschi. All perspective lines will be drawn to some point on the horizon line — a vanishing point. Raising the horizon line (indicated by the heavy dotted line) raises the viewer's eye level. One-Point Perspective This is the easiest composition to arrange in linear perspective. In one-point perspective, all lines converge on one vanishing point. One-point perspective is very simple, but it's also powerful — it guides the eye directly to the vanishing point. Two-Point Perspective Three-Point Perspective Adding a Reference Point

Drawing Geometric Perspective 4 of 7 in Series: The Essentials of Drawing Geometric perspective (sometimes called linear perspective) makes subjects in a drawing look like they recede into distant space, appearing smaller the farther they are away from you. Geometric perspective can also create the illusion that you are either above or below the subject of a drawing. Using geometric perspective makes your drawings appear three-dimensional (rather than flat), and more realistic. To get started with geometric perspective, you first need to acquaint yourself with the following: Horizon line: An imaginary horizontal line, sometimes referred to as eye level, which divides your line of vision when you look straight ahead. Lines of objects that are parallel or perpendicular (at a right angle) to the horizon line don't appear to go back in space (such as the top, bottom, and side edges of a building from a frontal view) and therefore don't meet the vanishing point. Creating a drawing's horizon line Looking upward 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.