This podcast is all about starting your drawings from the center. Many students often focus too much on the edge contour. They completely ignore important items on the interior of the form. Drawing is all about habits. Focusing too much on drawing an outline is just a bad habit, we all do it including myself. This podcast will hopefully make you aware of the importance of breaking some bad habits and starting some good new ones.
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March 17th, 2010 at 11:19 pm
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March 10th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
Do we have to hold the pencil like that. I hold mine really tight. I lose control of my pencil when using the tripod grip.
January 30th, 2010 at 10:20 pm
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July 25th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Well I do own a copy of Burne Hogarth’s Dynamic Figure Drawing, and in that book the author states:
” Shape which is delineated only by outline is two dimensional and has no volume, it cannot express form in depth; but when the forms of the figure are visualize as being three dimensional in space, the result is a three dimensional shape-mass. ” (page 9)
He said the artist, ” must train his eye to see three kinds of forms in the human figure; ovoid forms (egg, ball, and barrel masses; column forms (cylinder and cone structures) and spatulate forms (box, slab, and wedge blocks).”
Mostly Hogarth’s book is about drawing the figure in deep foreshortening so that you can render depths and action in figure drawing.
As a member of Drawing Tutorials Online, I now understand what books like Dynamic Figure Drawing are driving at. It is much easier to understand the concepts when you see it in action.
July 21st, 2009 at 12:16 pm
You got it Heather:) Thanks for the feedback.
July 21st, 2009 at 12:10 pm
I’ve noticed the tendency I have in really focussing on the outside edges when I’m drawing. The skull I put up on the site is a classic example of this. I love the idea of breaking the line up – so simple and so obvious, at least, once it has been spelled out to me! I’ve never thought of working from the centre either. I shall give it a try. Thanks as always for yet another great tip Matt!
July 17th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
I’m not to big into Hogarth but I will look into his stuff.
Matt
July 17th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Mary,
That’s a good idea, perhaps i will do that from the eye:)
Matt
July 17th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Liked the idea of bringing my drawing up a level by changing approach -this is going to be a challenge.
Could you do a finished portrait drawing with this technique. Always helps me to see it done.
Thanks, Mary
July 17th, 2009 at 1:36 am
Or maybe you could name some more books on this technics?
Thanks once again!
July 17th, 2009 at 1:32 am
Thank you for the informative video! Useful as always!
I had once read a book by Burne Hogarth “Dynamic Figure Drawing”, where he promoted somehow the similar idea. If you ever met this book could you tell your opinion, in a couple of words, about it?
And if it would be possible, could you make a podcast about drawing dynamic figures?
Thanks once again!
July 16th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Thanks Sarah. Great feedback!
July 16th, 2009 at 10:19 am
This is a very helpful tip, thank you. I have recently been noticing this bad habit in myself, and how it affects the finished work. I will definitely be practising this, and I can tell right way that it will be interesting prctise