Teach Yourself Visually Drawing

Examples of Line Drawing (continued) In this drawing, there is a combination of long fluid lines that accentuate the slightly el ...

Discover the Potential of Line chapter 8 This figure is drawn using sepia conté crayon. The drawing has a beautiful, light fluid ...

Irregular Objects as Still Life. In the previous chapters, the objects used for drawing exercises were not overly complex forms. ...

Discover the Potential of Line chapter 8 You can consider this still-life arrangement as organic by nature because each object d ...

Using a Grid for Accuracy. Because of the complexity of accurately drawing the objects in this still life setup (see page 126) a ...

Discover the Potential of Line chapter 8 Construct a Grid. This section provides the instructions for constructing your own grid ...

How to Use Your Grid. After you place your grid in front of your still life setup, care- fully measure and then draw 4" squares ...

Discover the Potential of Line chapter 8 From the Negative to the Positive. While you are looking at the positiveshapes of the l ...

Block In the Setup. With the still life setup of the plants, the seashell, and the pot, and the grid clamped vertically to the t ...

Discover the Potential of Line chapter 8 In this stage of the drawing, the artist mapped out all of the objects in the setup and ...

Map It Out (continued) At this stage of the drawing, the artist chose to remove the grid from the table in order to view the sti ...

Discover the Potential of Line chapter 8 At this point, it’s important to be very selective about what you add to and eliminate ...

Map It Out (continued) Near the final stages of the line drawing, the artist continued the same process from the previous step—l ...

Discover the Potential of Line chapter 8 Of course, it is always difficult to decide when a work is finished; this is undoubtedl ...

Variations on a Palm Frond. In this section, you can see four different approaches to drawing a portion of the palm frond. These ...

Discover the Potential of Line chapter 8 This drawing was intended to make a bold statement in almost a graphic way with its con ...

Containers #2,by Eileen Eder, courtesy of artist Gallery: Line Drawings. In this still-life line drawing, the artist used a fair ...

Portrait of an Elderly Woman,by Shell Fisher, courtesy of the artist Discover the Potential of Line chapter 8 In this drawing of ...

Gallery: Line Drawings (continued) In this deftly executed figure composition, Rubens has masterfully rendered a scene of a grou ...

Discover the Potential of Line chapter 8 In this economically drawn rendering of a reclining figure, the artist has used so few ...