You will learn to draw the beautiful birds in a few simple drawing steps.
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Color Value
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Shading to create 3D form
- Preface
- About Drawing
- Tools
- Basic Principles
- Practical examples
- Draw Birds in few steps
PREFACE
In my long years of being in the animation and gaming industry, I worked with various artists and organizations around the globe, they all work in different ways and use different methods to produce quality work, but the fundamentals? They are the same. I am very glad to be a part of the artist generation who witnessed and experienced how the industry made the transition from traditional to digital art productions. In my observation, today almost every student has access to all sorts of drawing education, gadgets and software's. The art academies are available in almost every place. but what I noticed in art students is their lack of basic understanding of drawing fundamentals. They often get confused between traditional drawings and digital drawings, And my solution to resolve the confusion is always the same, whether it is traditional or digital, there is no difference between the fundamental principles of the drawing aesthetics. Drawing principles are like the law of gravity, they are always at work. Once you understand these principles then you can draw anything you can imagine or see, like the way we learned to walk on this spinning planet and riding a bike all around. I repeatedly keep saying that, there is no such thing as a traditional or digital. It is just a drawing. Yes! This is a fact that drawing gets easier and faster with the help of digital gadgets and programs. But fundamentals carry the same principles throughout history. And they will continue to carry it till we live in this three-dimensional material world.
This Blog is a small extracted part of an art course originally designed for elementary and intermediate art grade students, This book is a guide for those who want to learn how to draw birds. Though this book is covering only how to draw birds, I am going to explain the basic fundamentals of drawing before getting started with bird drawings.
ABOUT DRAWING
Drawing is a form of visual art in which a person uses various drawing instruments to mark on any two dimensional medium such as paper, walls or computer drawing program screen.
Drawing is one of the oldest forms of human expression and it is the simplest way to communicate the idea or concept quickly with the world. It has been believed that drawings are being used to communicate even before the formation of any written languages.
Today we are living in a world where almost every artifact we are building or using is based on the visuals. No matter what your profession is, whether you are an employee, or it is your kids school project, presenting a business idea to your boss or creating the brand identity for your product, drawing is a helpful skill to speed up the progress and communicate your Idea.
Today we are equipped with various instruments, programs, and gadgets which help us to enhance our drawing skills.
So let's get started with the real stuff!
Of Course! We need various tools to make our drawings fabulous. We can use anything to draw but to kick start we need good quality Graphite Pencils with various grads such as H, F, HB, 2B, 4B, 6B, 9B, eraser, kneaded eraser, sharpener, drawing pad and drawing papers or sketchbook. These tools are more than enough to start drawing.
Generally, the Principles are very strict! That's why they are principles!
But, Relax! drawing principles are easy, they are just natural.
Throughout history there are various drawing principles that have been introduced in different words and languages by various master artists and teachers, and they are essentially meant to make us master artists. Here I am introducing the most basic, yet most important and what matters the most, to unleash the master artist within you! Once you get a grip on these principles you will find them very easy and as natural as breathing, of course! you might get frozen somewhere but no problem if you get frozen, just go through this book a few times and get some art heat, i mean these principles will heat you up!
Light & Shadows: Light is an element which makes things visible for the eyes. I know everyone knows this, but just in the rare case, we should make it clear.
- Color Value/Shades: In other words the base color of an object, we must not miss this significant aspect while observing the objects and drawing it. Each color has a black and white value. While doing pencil shading on an object, we can decide how much dark or light shading should be, based on the object's color values. Shades density and existence of each shade gets affected by light falling on it and its form.
- Form: Objects can be in any form but to keep it simple we will identify them in a few basic shapes, a sphere, cube, cylinder, cone, Pyramid, and Torus etc.
- Textures: Texture on an object gives the feeling that it appears to be present in the drawing but it is an illusion. It is not really present but we can feel the touch of it. This book will study various textures on birds' bodies.
Materials: Material is what the object is made out of. The objects we see around are made out of different types of materials, that's why we can differentiate them from each other, for example, objects can be made out of different metals, wooden, clay, clothes, leather, glass or plastic etc. and Yes! any other organic material.
PRACTICAL EXAMPLES
Example 1: Basic Pencil grades, tones and pressure
Observe and study by applying the pressure on different pencils how we get the different tones.
It’s Practice time!
Use different pencils and fill the box with dark to light tones.
create empty diagram as shown in below figure
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Example 2: Practical use of light and dark tones to create shadows and light on objects to create a 3D form.
We are using a circle to create Spherical 3d form.
Example 1: The spherical object of light color value.
Example 3: The spherical object of Contrast color values.
Example 3: Let’s understand the important elements of Light and shadows.
Light area: This area covers Highlights, Light tones, Middle tones.
Shadow area: Area which covers Core of form Shadows & Form Shadows.
Cast shadow and reflection: Cast shadow is an object's self shadow which falls on another surface and reflection light is the light which bounce back from other surface to object surface. generally bounce light is more visible in shadow areas.
Practice time!
Draw BIRDS in few steps
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