Sunday, May 23, 2010

How to draw a young woman - pencil portrait



woman portrait

All the portraits are wonderful, if there is a young woman in it.
Althougn you need to practise to learn how to drawing woman portrait (or graphite portrait), it is possible.
You have to know the face propotions and many things, that help you drawing as well, as you can.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

How to Draw a man portraits with graphite



Man - is the strong half of humankind.
There is so nice to study how to draw a man portraits using graphite.
At first, you need to draw the face. So you need pay attention to eyes, nose, hair.
pencil portrait man

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

How to draw an elephant



Well, of course, you know, what an elephant is a big animal.
It will be great to learn how to draw an elephant.
Let's drawing an elephant just in 5 steps. It is so easy. This free online animal-drawing tutorial.
As said - it is step-by-step lesson guide.
Did you know a mother elephant is pregnant for almost two years before giving birth? That's the longest pregnancy of any land animal in the world.
1. First step - body drawing.
 2 step. Drawing legs and trunk
3 step. Ears and eyes.
4 step - clear drawing
elephant drawing
So you have a real elephant. It takes just 5 steps.
elephant drawing
 So, this moment you know How to draw an elephant.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Pencil drawing for beginners: horizon line in drawing

At this article of pencil drawing for beginners we talk about horizon line in drawing.


Let's look at the railway rails laid on plain. There the flat surface of the earth is stretched extensively so far as soon as the sight can reach. Everywhere round ourselves we see the sky in the distance converging with the earth and forming there a long straight line. This line is called as horizon.

horizone line drawing

The ideal example of horizon is a huge reservoir at which it is not visible coast. On the sea the horizon represents an equal and continuous line.
We can consider horizon as a continuous line. It is valid so though any object — a hand, the mountain, a building — can partially or cover its kind completely. And still the horizon remains on the place even if we will enter into the house and we will close behind themselves a door. If the object, a kind covering to us, becomes transparent, we will see horizon. It is represented on the following page below.
It is second lesson - oencil drawing for beginners.
1 lesson pencil drawing for beginners

Monday, March 8, 2010

The basic concepts of pencil drawing: Prospect


Each artist should be able to represent a subject so how the volume looked, instead of flat, as if a paper surface on which it is drawn. So pencil drawing master have to choose right direction.
For this purpose the artist uses the reception named prospect.
For example, the brick drawn without use of prospect. It is called as a horizontal projection.
The brick drawn with use of prospect. It is called as drawing with prospect.

Pencil drawing for beginners. How to drawing well



Pencil drawing is the oldest form of fine arts and also plays a major role in other forms of visual art like oil painting and water color. While some may consider a pencil drawing a stage for another grander art work, drawing with a pencil is actually a major form of visual art and even a forte in itself.
Painting or sculpture is understood by many to make up a great part of fine arts, many artists actually still practice drawing as a final work of art. Most, if not all fine artists started with this genre that is why it is considered to be the oldest form of visual expression.

Many may think that drawing or sketching with a pencil is a limited form of visual art as it uses only one medium, that of the pencils lead. That understanding of this form of fine arts is actually a mistake. Pencil drawing may not use many mediums, as, in fact, it only uses one, that of the pencil, but however, there are variations that one must know in order to understand how this wooden stick makes wonders.
Here are some suggestions that how your drawing can be improved:
Experiment on the subject matter. There are infinite possibilities of ones drawing subject. One can draw representations of living things like people, animals or plants. The most common form of drawing, but is sometimes harder to draw are human portraits.

Places, landscapes and sceneries are also very good subject in drawings. Buildings, bridges and other structures are good architectural subjects; which depicts an appropriation of the real object. For highly stylized drawings like cartoons, caricatures and manage, artist subjects are often a creation of ones own imagination. In this kind of subject, the limit sits in ones own mind.
Use different shades and kinds of a pencil. Pencil as a medium can offer a very limited choice of shade. However, using different shades, size and types of lead will give you more ways to contrast your work of art.
There are leads which are lighter than the others, while other kinds are darker in shade and broader in application. One must realize that even the medium of pencil can have many variations, ready to be used and tried for the perfect shade.

Try different kinds of materials. Materials for drawing to come in different sizes, kinds and qualities.
There are papers in newspaper grade that can be used for practice. There are also high quality papers which are relatively expensive and sold in individual sheets. Texture, acidity, hue and strength vary from one type of paper to another.

One can also use different kinds of card boards to hold their drawing which is usually stronger than paper.
Every aspiring artist must understand that pencil is the most common tool in any field of visual art but its use, variation and its result should not be underestimated. Although there are some viewers who appreciate the complexity of colors in an artwork, some also find simple yet exquisite pencil works as appealing.
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Friday, February 26, 2010

How to Select the Best Paper For Pencil Drawing


Top quality, acid-free paper is essential if you want the best drawing results. Standard drawing paper has a poor-quality surface, and lacks the qualities needed to allow rich tonal development. Everyday papers also tend to have acidic qualities, which means they will yellow and/or discolor over time. (Think of old newspapers as an example - they turn yellow and discolor.)

The surface of the paper is going to be one of your most important choices. Most drawing surfaces have a slight texture, or "tooth" to them. These are usually known as vellum surfaces.
Drawing paper is also available with an extremely smooth surface, which would be known as a plate surface. You can purchase drawing paper as actual paper, or in heavier weights known as bristol board. A sheet of bristol is heavy enough that both sides have suitable drawing surfaces. There are also illustration boards - these are heavier still, though only one side is suitable as a drawing surface.
As a general rule, most artists using pencil, charcoal or pastel will prefer the vellum surface. The texture in the paper provides some friction to the media applied, and thus allows for a greater range of effects. Smooth or plate surface paper is usually preferred by pen & ink artists as very clean lines can be achieved with such a surface. For myself, I prefer a bristol surface when drawing "living" subjects such as people or horse or dog drawings. I like the plate surface for more mechanical subject such as aviation drawings or historic home portraits.
In addition to the weight or thickness of the paper, you will want to consider brightness. Drawing papers come in a range of "whites." Some are soft white and have an antique appearance. Others are off-white. My favorites are the brighter whites, as I feel I can obtain the greatest range of shadows on these papers.
For years my paper of choice has been the drawing paper is Strathmore 500. It's bright white surface and acid-free/archival properties make it a superb choice for pencil drawing. Strathmore 500 is available in paper weight, bristol board and illustration board. I also like this paper as it is available in large sheets - up to 30″x40." My top two suppliers for this paper are DickBlick.com and UtrechtArt.com.

Also you can watch video - How to Draw for Beginners: Choosing Paper for Beginning Drawing.



From this video you know how to choose paper even if you are beginner.

Artist and Graphic Designer Kelli Swan specializes in black and white pencil drawing and search marketing: Pencil Drawings by Kelli Swan, Graphic Design, SEO and SMM.

Saturday, January 9, 2010

How to Drawing Graphite Portrait From Foto - drawing woman




Today we learn how to drawing from photos. From your photographs. This is a portrait drawing by pencil, and we'll show it stage by stage - materials we take easier and we stretch employment on a part to capture each aspect of graphite portraits drawing. Well, you need a pencil, a paper and more or little time. We will drawing portrait of a woman. Let's begin.

Example of drawing is in the left side. It looks like very beautiful!

1. We draw a pencil a linear contour (free, by hand). Superfluous lines erase.

     2. Take mechanical graphite pencil 3В 0.5 and start to impose strokes in places of blackout of hair and follow the main directions.


    3.  The hair is no more difficult to draw than any other facial feature, although it can take considerable time to achieve a natural look. We continue to shade dark places. Watch closely their direction:  We learn to draw a graphite portrait. Thoughtfully and accurately, not to receive in drawing a sheaf of straw instead of hair. The first thing I do is shade in all the darkest tones drawing in the direction the hair lies. Closing the eyes slightly and squinting at your reference photo will help to define these areas.


    4. At this stage all of us as impose strokes in a direction of growth of hair, coming back and blacking out sites. Simultaneously with it make lines longer. How dark you shade areas is obviously dependent on the colour of the hair.

    5. Well, at this moment hand drawn portraits looks better). We continue work under hair style, again we black out sites of hair. At this stage of drawing of a portrait from photo it is necessary to avoid patches of light and to shade very accurately. Small council: it was more convenient to shade, it is possible to turn a paper

    6. We finish work on a hairdress. Going back, - you must make black out layers of hair:

    7. Now, by means of shading (dirty or pure - it it is unimportant) it is passable on a hairdress in a direction of growth of hair. The main thing not to suppose, that strokes were crossed, differently there will be ugly pollution. We smooth only in a direction!


    8. We learn to draw a graphite portrait further. Now has come to work over patches of light. Sharp eraser you "extend" lines (not parallel) in places of patches of light that they have mixed up with strokes of a pencil and have clarified proper places.
    So you need to open up the highlights again by dragging eraser from the light areas, into the dark



    9. You come back and trace a pencil 3В (or is softer) dark sites. You need to add a straight hair to borders of curls, heads, persons. The person it is not touched yet. Shading separate filaments, applying different pressings, you gain effect of individual hair

    10. Now you need to learn how to draw an portrait stage by stage:
    Remember - draw what you can see, not what you think you can see.
    When drawing the lashes below the eye, don't have them sprouting out of the eyeball. Note the lash line. And for a more natural effect, please try to avoid the spider's legs type lash but draw them in clumps.

    hand drawn portraits



    11. Here's the result:

    12. Now it is time to work at tones of a face skin. It looks like a terminator) Is it?)


    13. And here's and of work:




    You make a lot of work ... uff ... I wish you good luck in graphite portraits drawing.
    This lesson also about pencil drawing from photo.

    Original: http://www.risovat.ru

     Here's the video - it shows you stages of drawing of graphite portraits.



    Friday, January 8, 2010

    Pencil Drawing of Dingo (Dog)




    Well - here's the question - how to draw a dog? At a today's lesson interesting employment is necessary to us: we will draw animals! Today lesson - pencil  drawing of a dog - dingo!

    Before to start to draw a dog of a dingo, give something about it we learn. This animal with the large head developed by a thorax, a long hanging tail and powerful paws:



    We draw to a dog of a dingo a muzzle and ears. There is enough large ears, by the way. We start to work with a tail and paws: we do them more strongly and more thickly:



    We connect a contour of a part of drawing, we wipe additional lines and we start to work with details. We draw to a dog of an eye, a nose, fingers on paws:

    We add a wool and organs of smell (also moustaches):



    We black out drawing edges that the drawn dog of a dingo seemed volume. Both live. And present. It seems, it has turned out:

     source: http://www.risovat.ru

    The dogs and cats always have the most curious expressions, especially when we are looking at them. Look at the face of a cat when she is sitting on your compound wall or on a garden chair made of stone. Here the subject matter provides us with a chance to exploit the beauty of pencil drawing. This is the scene where the sunlight is prone to generate extreme contrasts between the body of the pet, a dog or a cat. We can use this light factor as a good guide for our pencil drawing, too.

     Video - drawing a simple dogs from cartoon

    Near - the video: Simple Drawing of a Dog - how to draw a dog. From this video you learn how to draw a cartoon dog using simple shapes in this step by step video guide. It seems to be funny and easy.