Teach Yourself Visually Drawing

Measure Your Object. Before you begin to draw, you need to determine the correct proportions of the object you are going to draw ...

Prepare to Draw chapter 4 To the right is a diagram showing two different ways to measure the height and width of the vase. The ...

Find the Angles. Correctly measuring your objects is only one part of drawing exactly what you see in front of you. You also hav ...

Prepare to Draw chapter 4 When you try to represent a more complex contour or form, draw multiple straight lines to represent ea ...

Discover the Pattern of Light and Shadow In this chapter, you will learn very simple ways of establishing the shape of light and ...

See the Value of Squinting................................ 50 The Range of Tones...................................... 53 Tone: ...

See the Value of Squinting In the initial stages of your drawings, try squinting as often as possible when you’re looking at you ...

Discover the Pattern of Light and Shadow chapter 5 Squint at the image on the right. How many large shapes do you see? Do you se ...

See the Value of Squinting (continued) Here is a sketch using only line. The line encompasses the area of shadow that you see wh ...

Discover the Pattern of Light and Shadow chapter 5 The Range of Tones. In order to obtain the illusion of reality in your drawin ...

Tone: From Dark to Light. The images in this section will help you identify the many varied tones of gray that can be found in a ...

Discover the Pattern of Light and Shadow chapter 5 Now the image has ten different tones circled. These tones range from the bri ...

Set Up the Still Life You can draw a beautifully round, solid object by following the directions given here. Be sure that you ha ...

Discover the Pattern of Light and Shadow chapter 5 Map out the shape of your object. Don’t worry about obtaining a perfect outli ...

Key Your Drawing. To key your drawing means to create a tonal range in your drawing. Tonal relationships (see pages 54–55) show ...

chapter 5 The Peephole Discover the Pattern of Light and Shadow A helpful technique to aid your eye in establishing the scale of ...

Develop the Tonal Range. You have now established your light- est light and your darkest dark. You have also mapped out with lin ...

Discover the Pattern of Light and Shadow chapter 5 To further emphasize the light on the top half of the vase, the artist added ...

Develop the Tonal Range (continued) The short neck of the vase is more fully formed with the addition of shapes of darker tone t ...

Discover the Pattern of Light and Shadow chapter 5 Observe the object at its edge. As the form turns toward the edge of the obje ...