Magazine Art of Drawing and Painting – new collection DeAgostini(DeAgostini) which will teach you how to draw step by step.
You will learn what line and color, composition and perspective are. To learn to draw is to reveal the best sides of his nature. The ability to draw is the way to self-knowledge!
Remember:
- Everyone can draw, but not everyone knows how.
- To learn how to draw, you just need to draw.
- Draw what you see with your eyes, hands, soul.
- See to draw and draw to see.
- The idea comes before the drawing.
- Draw to know.
- Draw to love.
- To draw means to remember, to tell, to learn, to love.
Drawing is the most important tool for human self-expression. Learn the basic laws of art.
Magazine
Everything you need to know about the art of drawing you will read on the pages of the magazine Art of Drawing and Painting. Drawing will give clarity to your thoughts and visibility to your observations.
Learn to draw with pleasure. Anyone who owns the technique of drawing can stop the moment! To capture your feelings and thoughts on paper, you need to be able to hold a pencil correctly.
Remember the main thing:
- Observe: look carefully.
- Think: about the object you are observing.
- Remember: mentally return to the details and features.
- Draw: transfer your memories and feelings to paper.
The magazine will help you become a real artist!
Look at a familiar object as if seeing it for the first time. The world will open to those who can draw it. Pencil and paper will help make your thoughts and feelings visible. The course, prepared by an experienced teacher, will reveal all the secrets of drawing.
- ABC of Drawing - This is the first practical part of the course. Start from the very beginning - draw simple objects. In this section, you will learn the technique of drawing, what is form, proportion, point of view, composition and implementation. The ABC of Drawing is the very first step towards great work.
- In the Workshop - The second practical part of the course. Nothing is impossible. In this section, you will gradually learn how to draw still lifes, and then learn how to draw a person.
- In the Plein Air - The third practical section of the magazine. With it you will learn how to draw beautiful landscapes. Fields, forests, rivers, ancient streets. You will be able to work en plein air without even leaving your home. Just call on the imagination.
- Fundamentals of Mastery - Without theory, it is very difficult to move forward. You will learn about cold and warm colors, about the possibilities of the color spectrum, learn to think spatially. In this section, in parallel with the theory, small practical exercises will be presented.
- Applied Creativity - this section is for those who like to make their own hands. You will learn new techniques and little tips on choosing the material for your art.
Drawing Tool Set
Reveal your Creative skills a professional set of tools will help. With each new release, you will receive one or another tool that will help you become a real artist.
Tools in the collection:
- Watercolor Pencils - A wide range of colors derived from natural pigments to create a watercolor effect.
- Colored pencils - For real artists - best tool to work in the technique of color graphics.
- Eraser - Soft. Indispensable for correcting pastel, charcoal and pencil drawings, because does not damage the top layer of paper.
- Sharpener - Metal, with two holes for pencils with a long and a short tip.
- Soft Pastel - Square Corners will bring out details, while the wide side will help cast shadow over wide areas of the drawing.
- Watercolor paints - You will need to paint drawings and create new, amazing color combinations.
- Brushes - From natural hair, for thin, clean lines.
- Artistic pencils natural colors– White, sepia, skin tone. For highlighting details and for final shading.
- Charcoal pencils - Charcoal sticks and charcoal pencils for sketching and heavy shading.
- Pastel Pencils - No wax. Used together with regular pencils to highlight details.
- Graphite Pencils - Great tool for sketching, shading and outlining.
- Oil Pastels - Needed to create intermediate shades. The high concentration of pigment allows the use of a special scratching technique.
- Grid - Required tool for your first compositions.
- Artistic pens - Essential for sketching and preliminary ideas.
- Ink - Ideal for fine detail and fine work.
- Drawing paper - Multi-colored sheets (white, light yellow, sand, lemon, almond, dark green, purple, coffee, colors sea wave, black) do not contain acids and do not fade
Exit Schedule
№1 – watercolor paints, flower-shaped palette, brush, white art paper for drawing – 15.01.13
№2 – magazine storage folder, folder number stickers, colored art paper for drawing – 05.02.13
№3 – wooden palette, simple pencil – 12.02.13
№4 – acrylic paints
– 19.02.13
Below will be presented artists who are famous all over the world due to their ability to draw with an ordinary slate pencil. Each of them has its own style, personality, as well as favorite topics for creativity. In addition, the name of each author is also a link to the artist's personal online gallery, where you can study in more detail and in detail the pencil drawings and the biography of each of them.
Looking through the pictures, you will notice some interesting features in everyone's pictures. Some are distinguished by soft lines, smooth light-shadow transitions and streamlined shapes. Others, on the contrary, use hard lines and clear strokes in their work that create a dramatic effect.
Earlier, on our website, we have already published images of some masters. Here is a list of articles where you can see equally attractive pencil drawings.
- Album of incredible illustrations by Mattias Adolfsson;
JD Hillberry
natural ability and desire to draw attention to his work came to JD Hillberry as a child. The desire and talent made the master one of the best artists pencil drawing in the world. While still studying in Wyoming, he began to develop his own technique, mixing charcoal and graphite to achieve a photo realistic effect in your drawings. JD uses monochromatic light to draw the viewer's attention to the play of chiaroscuro and texture. Throughout his career, he has tried to go beyond realism and expression. After moving to Colorado in 1989, Hillberry began experimenting with fake drawings. Traditionally, this type of work is done in oils, but he successfully conveyed the realism of the plot with the help of a pencil. The viewer, looking at such images, is deceived into thinking that the object is in a frame, or in a window, although in fact all these elements are drawn. Working from his studio in Westminster, Colorado, JD Hillberry continues to expand the public's perception with his drawings.
Brian Duey
Brian is one of the best amazing artists a pencil drawing that works beautifully with the pencil to create inspiring works of art. Here is what he says about his work and about himself:
"My name is Brian Duey. I was born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I attended public school in a small village called Granville, where he first became acquainted with art. I never thought about the seriousness of my hobby, but I discovered a strong attraction to drawing with a pencil in my 20s. I was sitting alone in my house, and out of boredom I decided to pick up a pencil and start drawing. I immediately fell in love with drawing and wanted to do it all the time. With each drawing I got better and better. I developed my own technique and original tricks as I worked. I strive to create realistic drawings and add my own conceptual ideas. I am often asked what inspires me and where I learned to draw. I can openly state that I am self-taught.
My illustrations have been published in books and greeting cards, on CD covers and in various magazines. I have been doing commercial work since 2005 and during this time I have acquired clients all over the world. Most of my orders come from the United States, UK and Canada, but I also work with clients in Ireland. My paintings have been shown in galleries in the United States. In 2007 I was asked to paint a portrait of Britney Spears which was included in art gallery in Hollywood, California. This event was covered on MTV and I got world fame. I'm not going to stop there and continue to work. I have new ideas and plans. One of my goals for the future is to publish an educational drawing book.
T. S. Abe
Although we did not find many works by Abe, her illustrations show that this is a high-class master. The artist has an excellent command of the pencil and skillfully depicts complex ideas by applying their own methods. Abe's paintings are harmonious and balanced, complex and at the same time easy to understand. She is one of the most talented pencil drawing artists of our time.
Caesar Del Valle
The artist in his works uses a special unique technique pencil drawing. Caesar's illustrations not only show his talent, but also reflect the author's subtle perception of the environment.
Henrik
Henrik's work is featured in art gallery Arts Deviant. His drawings are interesting example pencil art. The master miraculously uses black and white tones to convey original images and unusual ideas.
If your old dream is to learn how to draw real artist but there's no time to go to art school, or money to hire a tutor, do not despair! You can study on your own at home in your free and convenient time. The main thing is to prepare carefully, because you yourself will be your teacher.
First of all, you need to understand what kind of knowledge you need to master. Properly selected books are crucial in self-study. IN educational institutions for painters, the following disciplines are taught: drawing, painting, composition, color science, anatomy and perspective. If you decide to study the drawing course on your own, then you will need a set of the following textbooks.
Drawing
Fundamentals of educational academic drawing. Nicholas Lee.
The author submits the entire academic course, consistently disclosing all the materials curriculum art school. Step by step you will easily master the drawing of simple geometric bodies(cube, cylinder, sphere, cone, pyramid), which underlie the designs of any more complex objects such as Greek vases, capitals, furniture, houses, the human body. In this book, you will learn the basics linear perspective, the method of constructive construction in a drawing, the concept of the proportions of objects and their meaning in a drawing, as well as knowledge plastic anatomy human body.
Drawing. Sketches and sketches. V. K. Kuzin
Making sketches and sketches important role in the development of the expressiveness of the drawing, the integrity of vision, the ability to convey the proportions and main features of the pose. This book will acquaint you with the artistic possibilities of line and spot, as well as with various materials with which you can sketch. Lots of sketch examples here. outstanding artists. In addition, you will learn the role of sketches in creating a composition, and master the techniques and schemes for constructing sketches and sketches.
The play of light and shadow for artists. Burne Hogarth
From this book you will learn about all kinds of lighting and the effect of light on materiality. You will get an extensive understanding of what a black and white drawing on a plane is, and what role light plays in the modeling of a form. You will have an idea of what categories of light and shadow are, and how light affects the expressiveness of the composition. And also understand how flat scattered light, Moonlight, sculptural light, spatial light, fragmentary light, blinding light, expressive light. All in all, in this tutorial you will discover hundreds of definitions of light and gain a deeper understanding of its function in a drawing.
Painting
Technique watercolor painting. P. P. Revyakin
This book, published back in Soviet times, is a universal guide to academic painting. It gives a broad idea of the effect of lighting on color and reveals such basic concepts in painting as own and reflected light, color temperature, chiaroscuro, and local color of an object. This tutorial will introduce you to the sensitivity of our vision to color and various types color contrasts. You will learn what materials are needed when working with watercolors, as well as the interaction of various pigments with paper. Described here detailed methodology work classic way modeling the shape of objects using watercolor paints, as well as the concept of perspective and plans in painting. Much of the book is devoted to writing architectural structures, so it will be useful even for architects to read it.
Fundamentals of painting. Mogilevtsev V. A.
This book is designed for professional education portrait painting. It outlines the basic knowledge of academic oil painting in the portrait genre. There is also a description of the list. necessary materials, stages of drawing with a brush on canvas, a scheme for working out details (eyes, nose, lips). Also discussed here color relationships And means of expression painting. The book is divided into 4 sections: head, portrait with hands, figure, copying. In each section, the author describes in detail all the stages of work from conception, sketching to detailing and summarizing the finished portrait. In addition to this book, Mogilevtsev has two other excellent books “Fundamentals of Drawing” and “Sketches and Educational Drawing”, which also deserve attention and can serve as an alternative to the above drawing textbooks.
Full course oil painting. Hennes Ruissing
In this book you will find a description of materials for oil painting, primer recipes, methods for creating a stretcher, covering it with canvas and gluing it with primer. The author demonstrates all stages of work: from a sketch to creating a finished painting canvas. From this book you will learn how to work with a palette knife, how pasty and glaze paints differ, what is aerial perspective And . There is simple examples to develop oil painting techniques in the main genres. In addition, the author gives a concept of color contrasts and how to use them in painting, and also gives advice on how to avoid many mistakes when working with paints for beginners.
Watercolor painting course. Landscape in minutes. Keith Fenwick.
If you prefer watercolor, then this book will make it easy to master landscape painting. It contains many illustrated examples. With it, you will master the technique of painting landscape details, which are sometimes difficult for beginners - these are water, architectural details, stones, single trees. The author considers in detail the ways of writing various atmospheric effects, architectural and mountain scenery, teaches various techniques for writing the sky, forest, water. He reveals the secrets of his palette, demonstrates the possibilities of using a masking fluid, and gives many small practical tips.
Anatomy
Image of a person. Gottfried Bammes
Certainly the most best author which can be found to study the plastic artist. Bammes not only professionally expounds the anatomy of the human figure, but also gives an idea of the image of the figure on the plane. His best book, Anatomy for Artists, unfortunately has not been translated into Russian. So anyone who doesn't own German, I recommend that you familiarize yourself with these two books in Russian, “The Image of a Person” and “The Image of a Person. Fundamentals of Drawing from Life”, which are a compilation of the original book in Russian. The first book is a detailed anatomy course and gives a complete picture of the structure, proportions human body, the image of a static and dynamic human figure. The second book is devoted more specifically to the process of drawing a figure on a plane and will allow you to master various ways modeling the shape of the human body.
floristry
The art of color. Johannes Itten
This book is an extensive work on color theory. She will introduce you to physical nature colors, talk about the basics of color harmony and give a complete picture of the color system. You will learn not only about color construction, all types of color contrast, color harmony and the theory of color expression, which are the basis of many textbooks on color science, but also expand your understanding of color with deeper knowledge. The author delves into the study of the semantics of color, the subjective perception of color, the spatial effect of light on color. In addition, Itten pays attention to the theory of color impressions, which is especially important for painters who are interested in the realistic transmission of objects in a light-air medium.
Composition
Fundamentals of composition. N. M. Sokolnikova.
Despite the fact that this textbook is designed for students in grades 5-8, in my opinion, this is a useful book for both the beginner and the experienced artist. Here, in a simple form, the basics of composition are outlined and examples are very well chosen that clearly convey the logic of the compositional placement of objects on a plane. The book introduces the reader to the elementary rules and means of composition, the meaning of diagonals in the transmission of movement, the lines of force of the format, the means of highlighting the plot and compositional center, the rule of the golden section, symmetry and asymmetry. In general, here you will find everything you need to consider when building any composition, including practical advice that are easy to digest and apply.
With such a set of tutorials, you can master the process of learning to draw on your own! All of these books can be easily downloaded from the Internet, but it would be even better to purchase their originals for desktop reading. Finally, one more piece of advice - try to contact first of all methodological literature academic authors and avoid superficial paperback brochures with catchy titles that tend not to provide systemic knowledge.
The craft of a good draftsman is based on 2 basic things: the ability to control your hand and the right vision. If you want to create or design websites, then without special training not enough here.
The next 6 sections of the article, in fact, are the first step in this direction - you will learn how to learn how to draw and where to start. Immediately after that, proceed to the second part of the topic and go on.
This is a translation of a note from Medium by Ralph Ammer (all graphics are his own).
Advice. For the next 6 tasks, use one type of pen and one type of paper (for example, A5).
Hand dexterity - two workouts
The first two moves are about controlling your hand. You should fill your hand, and also learn to coordinate the vigilance of the eye and the movement of the brush. Mechanical practices are great for beginners. You can later use them to try out new tools. They also allow you to relax and take a break from mental or physical work. So, how to start drawing correctly.
1. Lots and lots of circles
Fill a sheet of paper with circles of different sizes. Try not to overlap the circles.
Learning to draw circles is not as easy as you might think. Note that the more circles on the paper, the more difficult it is to add the next one. Draw them in two directions and as many as you can.
Advice. Shake your hand when it starts to cramp, do this after each set.
2. Hatching - creating a structure
Fill in a sheet of paper with parallel lines.
Diagonal lines are the easiest for us, as they correspond to the movement of our wrist. Note that the left-hander prefers the opposite direction of strokes than the right-hander. Take a look at your favorite artist (in my case, Leonardo da Vinci) and try to guess which hand he wrote with?
Try other stroke directions. Have fun with the hatching process. Combine different strokes and enjoy how the paper is covered with various shadow spots.
Advice. Do not rotate the paper. It is very important to train your hand in different directions.
So, after we have trained the hand, we need to do exercises on the eyes!
Perception - learning to see
Drawing is primarily about seeing and understanding what you see. People often assume that everyone sees the same thing, but that's actually not the case. You can always improve and develop the quality of vision. The more you draw, the more you see. The following four tricks will make you expand your view of familiar objects. This is exactly what they begin to learn to draw in different courses.
3. Contour - show me your hands!
Do you see these different fascinating contours of your hand? Draw them on a piece of paper. Do not try to recreate everything, choose only a few of the most interesting ones.
Whether you're drawing a person, a plant, or your favorite animal, you create the outline of what you see. Outlines define the body or object and make it possible to recognize the pattern. The task is not to immediately display all existing distinctive features but to learn to see them!
Even if you know the shape of an object, it's still worth taking a closer look and re-examining it.
4. Chiaroscuro - apply light and shadow
Draw a piece of fabric. Start with the outlines, and then use your hatching skills to find the chiaroscuro transitions.
This exercise will help you learn how to convey light and shadow on paper. I must admit that this is not the easiest way for beginners. Keep in mind that it is not necessary to make perfect chiaroscuro transitions. The fabric is a playing field to practice the skills learned in the previous lessons. Plus, you will also understand how to learn how to draw chiaroscuro using only your hand.
Advice. You can do curved hatching to create shape, and cross hatching to achieve deeper shadows that resemble the texture of fabric.
Advice. Close your eyes a little while looking at the fabric. You will see a blurry image of the fabric and increased contrast between light and shade.
5. Perspective - Cubes in 3D Space
Let's draw cubes! Follow simple steps.
A drawing in perspective is a projection of a 3D object into 2D space (your sheet of paper).
Building a perspective is a separate science, which is unrealistic to be fully considered within the framework of one article. However, we can have some fun with a simple technique that gives us an intuitive feel for the magic of drawing in perspective.
Step 1. Draw horizontal line. This will be the horizon.
Step 2. Put two points along the edges of the line - two invisible vanishing points.
Step 3. Draw a vertical line anywhere.
Step 4 Connect the ends of the vertical line to the vanishing points.
Step 5: Add Two More vertical lines as below.
Step 6 Connect them to the vanishing points.
Step 7 Now use a black pencil or pen to trace the cube.
Repeat steps 3 to 7 for as long as you wish. Enjoy building! Have fun drawing, then you will succeed. You can shade the sides of the cube.
Advice. When you draw cross lines, it's best to overlap one line slightly over the other, so the shape is more visible.
Mastering perspective drawings will help you create the illusion of depth. And most importantly, you will teach your brain to see and recognize three-dimensional space. This is a great practice for how to start drawing from scratch without any skills.
Even if you decide to ignore the rules of perspective and make “flat drawings”, this knowledge will never be superfluous, but on the contrary will help expand your horizons and sharpen your visual receptor.
6. Building a composition - why here?
Do 5 different drawings one object. Position the item differently each time.
As you create various options positioning your subject on paper, try to trace how this changes its connotation - meaning.
The author Ralph Ammer has a few more interesting articles, but it is this one that you need to watch first in order to understand where to start drawing with a pencil and not only. In the comments, I would like to see your opinion about the pros and cons of the presented methodology. Which exercises really gave you pleasure, which did not? What else do you want to know on the topic or, perhaps, you have your own experience on how to learn to draw from scratch - write all this below.
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And the art of drawing- the most popular and informative drawing guide, which has been a source of inspiration for many generations of artists. The author conveys the basic principles of the art of drawing in a simple constructive manner. Moreover, Pogaini presents a full anatomical description of every part of the body, including skeletal bones and muscles. The book contains many illustrations that clearly demonstrate the process of creating a finished drawing. This book is useful to any artist - both beginners and already established.
The purpose of this book is to show the way to those who wish learn to draw. I tried to convey the basic principles of the art of drawing in a simple constructive manner. Work in the sequence suggested in the lessons. Start from a point and conscientiously go to last page. The results will surprise you!
Now before we start drawing lessons Let me give you some advice:
Remember that your hand is controlled by your brain. Studying the objects you want to draw properly will help you work more constructively.
The art of drawing requires considerable concentration of attention, but prolonged concentration can dull your perception and thereby reduce your abilities. I advise you to break away from work more often, which will not only allow you to relax, but also refresh your weakened attention.
Make sure the paper you are going to draw on is clean. Never do drawing lessons on dirty or untidy paper.
If you notice that your drawing is getting smudged and messy, it's best to start over on a blank sheet of paper or, even better, reproduce the drawing on a sheet of tracing paper or stencil attached to the drawing paper with adhesive tape. Draw for as long as possible, trying not to correct the drawing as much as possible. Then cover the resulting drawing with a new sheet of tracing paper and continue learning to draw, first making the necessary corrections.
Use this method all the time, while copying and correcting the drawing on clean sheets tracing paper until you are satisfied with your work.
Lay out all the sheets of tracing paper with drawings in order one by one. This will allow you to follow the progress of the work step by step.
Draw with a medium soft pencil. I would suggest pencils marked B, 2B for drawing.
Hold the pencil firmly but lightly.
Do not press the pencil with force, do not leave furrows on paper with it.
When you're drawing, it's a good idea to guide yourself, for example, by saying out loud: "This line rounds here from right to left ..., up or down," and so on. “This line is vertical, this line is horizontal, and this one ends here…”
At first glance, this method may seem silly, but it will help you more than you might think.
When copying drawings from this book, make them larger to help you work out the details better.
Avoid defeatism. You can achieve anything you really want.
Learn to draw honestly. At first, don't try to be too clever. Before you develop your own style, you need to master the drawing technique perfectly. Good luck to you!
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