Charcoal – the basics
Guidance Honestly, I’ve not spent no time looking for free charcoal tutorials or guides on youtube or internet because this is one where I truly believe doing is the best way to learn but one I found is Mad Charcoal. If I come across any others, then I’ll update this page. Mad Charcoal He does […]
Human Head – face furniture
Face furniture In addition to trying to find the easiest way to do a head overall, there were times I had to look up how to do specific elements – eye, lips, nose, hair etc. Eyes Video Angel Ganev Whilst I am not a big fan of this youtuber and his chosen youtube persona, I […]
Human Head – Basic proportions
Basically, the way to approach understanding where face furniture sits on heads, you have to draw a ball, split it in the middle for brow/eyes then add a bit for the chin. Video Video 1 – Brad’s Art School Comment: A fun and simple way of learning the proportions of a face with some tips […]
Block-in
What is block-in? Block-in technique: “A block-in is a light sketch of your whole composition before any details or shading are done to make sure it’s placed correctly on the page and that the proportions and distances are accurate.” Source: https://www.artistsnetwork.com/art-mediums/drawing/drawing-basics-the-beauty-of-a-block-in/ Comment: I did try to use the different parts of the face to […]
The drawing fundamentals
The fundamentals On google, you’ll get a range of answers to the question of ‘what are the drawing fundamentals?’ Few of them will even agree on the number of fundamentals! There simply are too many for me to list here but these seem to be the fundamentals that most will include: Values or shading Proportions […]
Drawings: June 2022
Date: 16/6/22 Comment: Charcoal – Skull No. 7 – 16 mins I actually stopped after 16 mins because I realised I got the proportions totally wrong and as a result, the values would end up being weird. Failing to get the points right is a recurring theme (or to do it properly because I sort […]
Pages updates
As mentioned in my May Updates post, whilst I didn’t really do much drawing, I did do a fair amount of work on the website which included updating some of the design of some of the pages, but also added pages. The re-design is really more about learning how to use Elementor a bit more […]
Colour in Digital Drawing
Source for image: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/319263061064518833/ Introduction Colour in digital drawing builds on the traditional colour and basically adds another layer of complication for digital drawing. There are additional elements that need to be considered and the really hard part has been how to filter the sheer volume of information and work out what is important at […]
Drawing and Illustrating Tips
Table of Contents Introduction This page is going to be a dumping ground for all the tips on drawing, composition or software hacks that I pick up along the way. At this point there isn’t going to be any sort of order to it but it may do at some point. Colour- Choosing Colours: 60-30-10 […]
Colour Theory: Traditional
Source: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/134122895144018529/ Table of Contents Introduction When I initially saw the phrase “Colour Theory”, for a pedantic like me, it is an odd phrase because colour is an absolute, it just is one thing. However, a scratch below the surface and it is really about the use of the colour. There is lot of stuff […]