tailieunhanh - Drawing Workshop II- P13

Drawing Workshop II- P13: This book contains everything you need to know to improve your drawing skills in 12 easy steps. "Drawing Workshop II" is for anyone who wants to improve their drawing skills. Starting with materials and techniques, warm-up exercises encourage you to build your expertise and confidence. Easy-to-follow step-by-step projects designed to train your eye and develop your skills show you what to do, and demonstrate key techniques used to build perspective, atmosphere and movement | 3 Draw the looped forms of the laces and decorative Howers and then pick out and strengthen I he lines that carry the form of the shoes with the softer 4B pencil. Ruh hack your faint working lines with the plastic eraser. Rest your hand on a sheet of paper to avoid smudging the existing lines. Begin adding gray tone with the graphite sticks _ use the 2B stick for the liner more detailed areas and the softer 6B for the broader areas. Think in terms of distinct areas of tonal value and faintly draw the contours of the different tones before shading. I OBJECTS 6 Color one shoe at a lime using the cadmium red pastel stick. Move across the shoe from left to right or right to left if you are left-handed to prevent unwanted smudging. Keep the crayon marks loose the tone will be established later by blending with your fingertips. Blow excess pastel powder away from the drawing blowing from above the red shoe the 7 Roughly build up the correct densities of color. Don t worry if you go over the pencil boundary line energy is more important than neatness in ibis drawing. SMUDGING PASTEL powder marks the paper producing a faint red glow around the shoes. Some makes of pastel are chalky others sticky. The former are better for smudging so find the one that s best suited to your style. 8 Smudge I he red crayon with your index finger. Spread lhe pastel jusl a little .it first so that you can evaluate the placement and quality of the color f ollow the shapes of the shoes as you smudge using your linger as a drawing implement. Be sure to blend the pastel into the paper you need Io press it in well because the pastel will Indraw n ver later with graphite so should not be too loose. 9 Use the stronger hue of red Windsor red to work over the blended pastel in selected areas. Build up layers of pastel to match the intense deep red color of the nap of the suede. The cadmium red acts as an undercoat for the Windsor red. eliminating any whiter areas and making the color glow. Familiar .