In the previous article, Linda began to show why it’s better to draw from life than from a photograph. When you draw from life, you can feel less restricted in adding your feelings or in becoming committed to translating feelings on paper. In this article, she goes deeper to show how you can use symbols to help send messages, and how to draw such intangibles as weight, sound, and scent.
Read MoreIn this article, Linda shows how variety in form and in texture provides your drawings with more interest. She also emphasizes how little texture you really need to draw when you incorporate depth into your pieces. Finally, you’ll learn how to incorporate some ‘style’ into your drawings, or learn how your perception of objects is individual and yours alone.
Read MoreIn this article, Linda shows how variety in form and in texture provides your drawings with more interest. She also emphasizes how little texture you really need to draw when you incorporate depth into your pieces. Finally, you’ll learn how to incorporate some ‘style’ into your drawings, or learn how your perception of objects is individual and yours alone.
Read MoreIn the previous article, Linda showed how everything that you draw can be reduced to forms. She also introduced you to depth, and how that depth can be mimicked through drawing through on the forms rather than drawing outlines or shapes. In this tutorial, she takes you further into depth and also into composition, so you can begin to control your drawings.
Read MoreNow that you have the human form down, Linda wants to take you beyond figures and drapery and into still life and landscapes. But, before you go there, you’ll need to learn more about form and depth and composition. In addition, you probably want to learn how to develop some texture in your work. But, first things first – this article is about how to find forms in everything you want to draw, and how to develop depth with those forms.
Read MoreThis is the third in the series about how to draw clothing. In the previous two articles, Linda demonstrated how to draw folds, the seven folds and their variations, and how they worked in men’s clothing. In this last article on how to draw garments, Linda will demonstrate how and why women’s clothing is different than men’s garments. In addition, she’ll introduce you to fashion illustration.
When you learn how to draw, you'll see the world around you in a different perspective.Linda Goin takes you on a creative journey, where you'll discover the world on paper.
Draw the human figure, motion, clothing, folds, shadings and last but not least learn allyou need to know about composition.
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In the previous tutorial, Linda illustrated seven basic folds that may help simplify drawing clothing for your human figures and draperies for your still life drawings. In this article, she shows those folds on figures in action, and she demonstrates how body movements and certain fabrics create different folds. This article focuses on men’s clothing, and the upcoming article will hone in on women’s apparel.
Read MoreIn this tutorial, Linda will show you seven basic folds, tools that will help you to simplify drawing clothing for your human figures and draperies for your still life drawings. Additionally, you’ll see these folds in actual clothing so that they’ll be easier to memorize. Linda also tosses in a little physics education, so you can learn how gravity and points of pressure help to create fabric folds.
Read MoreIn the previous article, Linda left you with some links to online articles about shading techniques. In this tutorial, she takes you deeper into those techniques as you begin to shade the human face. Learn how to simplify the shading process so that your faces don’t look like they have rare skin diseases! From here, Linda will take you into shading cloth in preparation for an upcoming article on rendering clothing.
Read MoreThe figure in motion is the “figure alive,” and drawing the human form in motion isn’t easy. But, a solid foundation in this skill would benefit anyone who draws animation, cartoons, or even scenes for videos. In this article, Linda shows how the human form works and common mistakes that artists make when drawing the figure in motion.
Read MoreThe human foot, like the human hand, is one of the most difficult appendages to draw. In this tutorial, Linda shows you how to draw the foot, and why knowing how the foot works will provide the artist with the skills to show the body in motion. Not only is this information invaluable to the artist, but also to animators, cartoonists, and other designers who seek to parody, contradict, or emphasize the human act of displaying actions and emotions physically.
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