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Drawing in perspective is one of the most important topics when it comes to depicting any three-dimensional object on a flat surface. Whatever you draw - a simple geometric figure or a portrait - it has to be in correct perspective. In this lesson, you will discover some very helpful tips for spotting mistakes in perspective drawing.
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How to measure angles from life is one of the most fundamental skills to have. It is especially useful when you draw objects in perspective. This knowledge helps to draw not only vanishing lines, but any tilted lines you see in life.
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In the history of arts, there are many examples of intersecting cylinders. Any fluted column has such geometry. Here, you will discover how to make a drawing of the cylindrical column segment.
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Measuring relative proportions is one of the most fundamental skills every fine artist must have. Without this skill, it is impossible to make proportionate and realistic artworks. In this article, you will discover how to measure proportions using a pencil.
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In this video, you will discover how to make a mold and cold cast a classical bust. Every sculptor has to have good drawing skills. Making your own cast of a classical bust is the great way to learn the three-dimensional construction of a head and make a model that you can draw from life.
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In this video, you will discover 15 Elements of Composition that you can use to compose beautiful works of art to tell a story, induce emotions, and pass the message to viewers...
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In this video, you will discover proportions and construction of a skull, how to make a paper skull model and how to draw a skull from life with the necessary knowledge of its anatomy...
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In this video, you will find out how to sculpt a sphere and draw it from life with the necessary knowledge of tonal values terminology...
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In this video, you will find out what golden proportion or golden ratio is and how to use it in art...
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In this video, you will find out to scale drawings using a proportional caliper. A good proportional caliper is one of the sculptor's most useful tools. However, it can be handy not only for making sculptures, but also for scaling up or down drawings. If you don't have such a tool, it is easy to make one yourself...
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If a student receives a limited spectrum of art education, this will limit his or her ability to create good works of art. These days, we see narrow specialization in many design schools. Watch this video to discover how you can benefirt from the Life Drawing Academy courtses...
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In this video, you will discouver how to use contours and outlines in life drawing. To begin with, we need to decide on what are the contours and outlines and why are they important in life drawing? Contours are virtual lines. Do not confuse them with the visible outlines of a body...
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In this video, you will find out why drawing in chalks and charcoal slows down your learning curve, why making fast sketches is not the best way of learning life drawing, and why it is important to use constructive drawing principles when drawing from life...
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Hard-work is much more important than a talent. That is why they say that 5% of talent and 95% of work make a great artist. Above all, I wish you to be driven by your hard work; talent will come...
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When you're drawing from life, the horizon line always will be at your eyes level. There is no guessing needed. Horizontally located circles appear as ovals in perspective. However, when a circle is at the horizon level, it is seen as the straight line. The vanishing point for a standing cylinder will lie on the horizon line...
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There are five main ways to measure: measuring vertical alignments, measuring horizontal alignments, measuring angles, measuring cross points, and measuring relative proportions. To find out how to use a pencil to measure from life,
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In this video, you will discover how to develop good pencil hatching skills using simple drawing exercises. These exercises will help to achieve fast speed of hatching, ability to hatch strokes at any angle and length, and effortless hatching on autopilot that depends on muscle memory.
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In this video, you will discover how to use the candle grip - the way to hold a pencil when drawing on a vertically positioned board. This grip allows to make long lines, both straight and curved, with ese and precision. This is an essential drawing skill every fine artist must have.
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In this video, you will discover how to sharpen a pencil the right way. It is an essential skill every artist must have. Unfortunately, many art colleges do not bother to teach this skill. A well-sharpened pencil should have the cone length about three centimeters.
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Life Drawing Academy™ is the ultimate course for artists who would like to achieve advanced levels of figure and portrait drawing skills. It is presented online by professional fine artists and art teachers and includes video lessons and personal support by the Academy tutors.
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Life drawing - recreating the human figure - is one of the most challenging of art forms. Many people labor under the myth that great artists are born; that unless you've been blessed you will never paint or draw like a maestro. This is far from the truth...
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If you had to choose the greatest life drawing artist ever, it wouldn't be an easy task. So what about the contemporary crop of life drawing artists? Who, living today, are the best artists at drawing the human figure from real life?
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In the second half of the 20th century, time-honored values of traditional fine art have been steadily replaced by modern art. Although the interest in figurative art remained, life drawing would become more expressionist and less anatomical as artists found ways to reinvent how they depict a human body...
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Life Drawing, also known as Figure Drawing, is the practice of drawing in order to study the human figure in detail. Some academic environments offer this approach through the drawing from sculptures or casts of the figure. After that practice, the students have to represent a live model, which will either be dressed, semi-clothed or nude...
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Leonardo was a master of human anatomy, performing a great number of exhaustive sketches of muscles, tendons and other anatomical features. He planned to include his drawings in a treaty about anatomy, but the project remained incomplete, thus the unpublished drawings remained with his private papers...
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Life drawing is a representation of the human subject in any of its various forms and positions using any style or type of drawing. Life drawing also includes the studies on individual details such as drapes, anatomical parts, facial expressions, etc. In addition to the living model, through history the artists made use of wooden dummies...
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