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Drawing from life. Do they know what is what?

escargod: Hi again. We’ve now established how to measure, how to see past your subject, and where to put your subject on the page. Plus a few other things. Well done for getting this far, you. I’m proud already. The truth is, you are going to fight yourself while learning to make an accurate drawing. That’s usually because drawing is quite organic and comes from your creative happy brain, but...

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Drawing from life. Blind drawing!

escargod: (This’ll only be a quickie, but it’s important.) Blind drawing, right? What the heeeell. It’s one of the most useful and fun exercises you can do to develop your ability to see things, despite the name. Drawing “blind” means only that you don’t look at the paper. Keeping your eyes fixed on your ref, you let your hand move across the paper and draw exactly what you see. It helps if you...

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Drawing from life. Put it in a box.

escargod: We’re starting to get the hang of putting a drawing down on paper now. So I’d like to say something very important at this point, and it’s something I didn’t realise for a long time — you will make a lot of these drawings. I’m talking in the low hundreds to start off with. About 90% of those drawings at first will look terrible, and even your mum probably won’t want to keep them, but...

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Drawing from life. Negative space!

escargod: So, you understand measuring. Sort of. Maybe? Good. Stay with me. It doesn’t have to make sense just yet. There are other, more organic tricks you might like to use instead. Let’s continue with that idea of ignoring the subject and drawing its form instead. If you’re looking at a face, your brain *desperately* wants to see “eyes, nose, mouth”. Or whatever. It wants to MAKE your...

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Drawing from life. Here's how to do that.

escargod: N.B. When I’m saying “from life”, I really mean “from a still life, photos, the TV screen, observing people in the street, a cat, pretty much everything you can look at”. These are skills you can incorporate into any kind of drawing, whether it’s realistic(ish) portraits, studies for something completely fantastical, or to bring a solidity to something abstract. Like I said before, the...

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Introduction to drawing from life. Hi.

escargod: My name is Snail. I draw stuff. Today I’m going to talk about the basic skills you need to draw accurately from references. Some of this stuff you’ll know. Some of it might be totally new! Mostly, these are skills you learn in a good life drawing class, but not everyone has access to a life room. The barest basics of drawing in general are these: Have fun. When it stops being fun,...

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