Newbie questions
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2022 11:16 am
Hello everyone,
My name is David from New York City. I'm a total rookie although I've taken a drawing class a long time ago at the Students Art League, and I have some drawing landscape books that I've played around with. But nothing like the depth of instruction I'm seeing in Mike's books and video's.
As I move through the preliminary exercises, questions are arising. Two for now.
I was watching the video on linear shading, and Mike introduces stippling and how he used it on brick.
All the shading in this picture was done with one shading technique? Stippling? I see the beginning where you start and then see this finished photo and it's difficult to believe that the smoothness of the texture and graduations were all done with this one technique. It's really amazing. There was no other shading technique used at any time?
If so, can I ask how long something like this took to complete?
Would this be a strategy one might employ for close up study of tree bark?
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My other question is I've been sketching a tree similar to the tree tutorial. I have difficulty getting the proportions correct. In the 8 week workbook, the final exercise entails a grid but I don't see complete instructions on how to use this grid method? Did I miss something somewhere?
What I've been doing is simply sketching on a practice piece of paper where I don't get so stressed out that it doesn't look correct. Sometimes I erase, but often I'll just sketch new lines (not worrying too much about the mess) until I can get the proportions correct. In the tree tutorial, Mike says that he took an hour or so to draw it and then he drew it on his final paper to work the leaves then you redid it on another paper. You just redrew it again? Or used another method to transfer.
I want to draw the tree in proportion to itself and other items in the background. I assume I just keep practicing until it looks good?
Is using tracing paper where I trace over a sketch and then transfer to a new paper something that is used?
My name is David from New York City. I'm a total rookie although I've taken a drawing class a long time ago at the Students Art League, and I have some drawing landscape books that I've played around with. But nothing like the depth of instruction I'm seeing in Mike's books and video's.
As I move through the preliminary exercises, questions are arising. Two for now.
I was watching the video on linear shading, and Mike introduces stippling and how he used it on brick.
All the shading in this picture was done with one shading technique? Stippling? I see the beginning where you start and then see this finished photo and it's difficult to believe that the smoothness of the texture and graduations were all done with this one technique. It's really amazing. There was no other shading technique used at any time?
If so, can I ask how long something like this took to complete?
Would this be a strategy one might employ for close up study of tree bark?
_________________________
My other question is I've been sketching a tree similar to the tree tutorial. I have difficulty getting the proportions correct. In the 8 week workbook, the final exercise entails a grid but I don't see complete instructions on how to use this grid method? Did I miss something somewhere?
What I've been doing is simply sketching on a practice piece of paper where I don't get so stressed out that it doesn't look correct. Sometimes I erase, but often I'll just sketch new lines (not worrying too much about the mess) until I can get the proportions correct. In the tree tutorial, Mike says that he took an hour or so to draw it and then he drew it on his final paper to work the leaves then you redid it on another paper. You just redrew it again? Or used another method to transfer.
I want to draw the tree in proportion to itself and other items in the background. I assume I just keep practicing until it looks good?
Is using tracing paper where I trace over a sketch and then transfer to a new paper something that is used?