Draw Like A Pro

If you are going to work from a photograph in conjunction with the grid-method you will need to transform your photograph into a useful reference image.
The procedure I will describe works quite well and I have personally been using it for quite a while. As you get more experience you can easily adapt the process [...]

 Each drawing effort starts with the Preparatory Phase followed by the Line Drawing Phase. After that come the Shading Phase and the Blending Phase. Finally, almost as an afterthought, the procedure ends with the Detail Phase.
The Detail Phase consists of judiciously adding small accents in such a way that they enhance the drawing. Here are [...]

In this article we deal with the line drawing phase. We assume that we already have a gridded reference picture of the correct size at our disposal.
Your reference image will often be too large for most printers to print in one piece. To get around this you could print the image in pieces on plain [...]

The line is one of the most basic entities used in drawing. The straight line has two fundamental properties:
* Length – Naturally, the length of a straight line is the distance between its beginning point and its end point.
* Direction – A straight line also has a direction. Its direction is determined by the angle [...]

First, let us introduce a few definitions: * Eye Level – The eye level is the height of the line (eye level line) that connects your two pupils. This assumes that you stand vertically on a level surface.
* Eye Level Plane – A horizontal plane drawn through the eye level line is called the eye level [...]

Any scene can initially be seen as a composition of a series of forms that are all related to four basic geometric solids: the brick, the sphere, the cylinder, and the cone. In this article we concentrate on the cylinder, i.e., we will detail its properties and its place in the overall scheme of a [...]

Any scene can initially be seen as a composition of a series of forms that are all related to four basic geometric solids: the brick, the sphere, the cylinder, and the cone. In this article we concentrate on the brick, i.e., we will detail its properties and its place in the overall scheme of a [...]

In this article we will discuss the different phases you go through when drawing a scene. There usually is a preparatory, line drawing, shading, blending, and detail phase.
* Preparation – There are two possibilities: (1) You work from a photograph or (2) You work from life. When you work from a photograph make sure it [...]