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How to Draw Anything by Eye

How to Draw Anything - Observational Line Drawing Techniques

This lesson is designed to show students the most direct way of learning how to draw whatever they see with the least amount of practice. Whether you've got time on your hands and you want to learn how to draw, or you want to improve your foundational skills and take your work to the next level, this tutorial illustrates master techniques that allow artists to draw anything just by looking. Exercises included can be accomplished with minimal materials.

Professor Dave goes through a step-by-step tutorial illustrating techniques such as "sight-size", "plumb-line" and how to measure "2-D angles" by eye. Here you'll see a real life example of what it's like to work on a drawing with a variety of tips, while considering the act of drawing along the way. The lesson is drawn from university classes reviewing the fundamentals and tools to make accurate observational drawings.

Materials: Pencil Eraser Paper Straight Edged Stick or even a piece of string.

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How to Draw: I’m a Little Teapot

I’m a little teapot drawing lesson builds on the previous video “The Straight Line Method” found below.

Professor Dave goes over ways of analyzing our drawing subject, reviews variations in shading and line quality and talks a bit about the philosophical underpinnings behind observational drawing.

Materials: Pencil, Eraser, Paper and some stuff to draw - preferable your radist lookin teapot.

How to draw: Straight Line Method

Part one in the How to Draw Series. The Straight Line Method is a university lesson giving overview on how to simplify subjects to give better definition to our drawings and train our eye to see more accurately.

Materials: Pencil, Eraser, Paper and some stuff to draw

How to Draw a Cup, Step One: Draw a Cup

Workshop held on October 2nd, 2021. More content describing this workshop coming soon.

examples of my student’s work and class exercises

 

Intro Drawing

Intro Drawing

Intro Drawing

 

Several measurement techniques are taught and employed in class to develop comprehension of 2-d space.

 

Intro to Drawing

 

Portrait Drawing: Developing character in an image requires that we bring our attention to a variety of qualities beyond technical ability alone.

 
 

Intermediate Exercise: Students draw an object once and then render the same object in upside-down. Very challenging and informative exercise.

 

Most basic drawing exercises include 5,10, or 20 minute timed exercises but, depending on the level of the class students may do projects that take many hours over the course of weeks.

In advanced drawing, more complicated arrangements help students hone skills and test refinements to their techniques.

 

In this exercises students only measure and describe the ‘negative’ or interior spaces between objects. Refocusing where our attention rests allows us to see the world more freshly and gain insights into our habits of thought.

We do creative exercises with models to practice proportion, composition, rhythm and inventiveness.

In portrait drawing we often draw one another in timed increments.

We do creative exercises with models to practice proportion, composition, rhythm and inventiveness.

 

Playing with props.

Some examples of in class demonstration sketches.

 

This row has a couple examples I’ve done with students. This one demonstrates caricature.

Demonstrating composition and line description.

How well can we accurately fit a single object into the space of the page?

Finding a place to fit one portrait into another.

 
 

Always practice your positive attitude! @joeyphoto3