Sketch Book for the Artist

DRAWING VESSELS

Once you have mastered drawing free-hand springs, you can start

to control your spinning ellipse to make a vessel.

A Single Vessel

Seeing Through

Allow lines to travel around each vessel as if it

were transparent. Altering the pressure—and

therefore tone—of the line as it spins gives the

impression of light shining on one side.

One Inside Another

Grouped Together

Create a Solid Surface

Once you have drawn the shape and volume of

each form, you can make it solid by building up

highlights and tones on visible surfaces, thereby

hiding lines that show the other sides.

Finding Shape and Volume

Draw an imagined vessel in one continuous

spinning line. Draw quickly, working from top to

bottom, enlarging and diminishing the ellipse to

determine the overall shape and volume.

HOW

TO

DRAW

ELLIPSES