Basics of drawing

Basics of drawing - I am talking about the way how to learn, through which once I managed to pass the school course for four months and went into a prestigious art institute, typing on exams 298 points out of 300 possible. I hope my experience will help you. After studying the material you'll find that drawing is not such a complicated science, as it seems at first sight. It is important to visit the page on how to properly hold a pencil before we start learning the basics of drawing. This knowledge is necessary for the correct hands setting. Learn the material, I'll wait for you. And also it will be useful to look at the page about sketches.

Basics of drawing

Basics of drawing The beginning: If you're a budding artist, you need the basic knowledge of the fundamentals of drawing. Do not look at works of great artists, you'll understand them a little later. Concentrate on yourself. And we'll start with understanding of the drawing itself.
All objects are in space, they wrapped in it in a harmonious blend and obey its laws. You must learn to see not individual items, but the whole ensemble, harmony of line and form even in the most simple still life drawing. You need to look at it as on a continuous tandem of lines, shapes, light and shadow. Drawing is a conventional space of paper sheet, which has a ground plane, proportional to the ratio of all objects and light and shade distributed on the form of objects.

The main elements of visual literacy:

Flat shapes (two dimensional)

Three-dimensional shapes
Basically all objects contain these figures in themselves somehow.
Cube is like basis of three-dimensional image in a conventional paper space:
Fundamentals of drawing. Understanding.
To begin, I want to tell you a little story about a little ant. Can you imagine? A small ant, climbed on his grass and ran into something ... Something unknown. He didn't know himself. And he wished to know what has blocked his path. The ant has climbed with difficulty the top of the object, climbed from all sides, inside and out but did not understand what it was. He didn't understand, because he was very small and only saw some parts of the object and could not imagine the whole picture. Then he climbed a high tree, and looked from above and saw the big picture ....
We are not really interested in what he saw but the essential meaning, I think, is clear. We'll make it like the ant- we'll the start with the big picture.
Let's continue. The cube is the basis of three-dimensional image in a conventional paper space. It has a vertical, horizontal and depth. It incorporates the very understanding of the drawing. Here we have to start and work with our cube. We will develop logical thinking on an analysis of the real form with figurative and logical constructs.

Basics of drawing

Exercise 1 for understanding of the basics of drawing:

Sit at the easel, take half of a sheet of drawing paper, fasten it. And draw a cube, don't forget also about edges:
Front corners and sides will look clearer, those that go in depth, we will do less clear to achieve a sense of space. Edges in the perspective are also drawn less clearly, and clearness will fade away gradually. Unseen edges are necessary for construction. So, mark everything what is closer to us - the angles, sides, edges:

You can draw not only with a pencil, you can use the sanguine, pastel, charcoal. If a pencil - then it should be soft. Now let's draw the second cube behind the first one:

What's happening? The first cube is closer to us, so it will look clearer. The second is weaker, and all its faces are far weaker than the faces of the first cube. So the second one is located behind the first cube. You must understand this, it is the basis of spatial vision, the basis of the drawing.
And now we'll do the following : we'll draw another cube, which will be located in front of the first two. Let's mark it's lines to make it look closer to us! Here we highlight it's edges and sides, so that they were more clear then sides and edges of the cubes in the background:

Cubes can be arranged not only as soldiers on your worksheet, they can fly as they want. Do this exercise for as long as you master it. Draw with any material, draw on a paper sheet. Do not use exercise books. Here are some examples of the job:

When the block is like this:

closest to us corners and edges will be more active. We need to highlight them, everything else fades away. No matter how much paper you spend for the exercise. Do not use an eraser, think better. You can not go to the second exercise before you learn this one. Here you will learn quickly, but if you don't know the basics, you will fail. No need now to seek beauty and purity in the drawing. The main thing is that you understand what you are drawing. The main thing now is to learn to understand what you are doing.