EQ: How do skill and technique enable the creative process?
In a painting, the final work reflects the presence or absence of a well-established preliminary drawing, and can only be as good as any mistake, disproportion, or incorrectness that exists in the planning phase. Often is is hard to tell where the painting begins and the drawing ends as the structure becomes a medium of expression that is integrated into the painting.
The sketch should be based on just a few shapes that help distribute the different elements on the model on the surface of the paper. That is why the preliminary drawing looks so schematic.
LIke this: Now you try with both of the two photographs
In a painting, the final work reflects the presence or absence of a well-established preliminary drawing, and can only be as good as any mistake, disproportion, or incorrectness that exists in the planning phase. Often is is hard to tell where the painting begins and the drawing ends as the structure becomes a medium of expression that is integrated into the painting.
The sketch should be based on just a few shapes that help distribute the different elements on the model on the surface of the paper. That is why the preliminary drawing looks so schematic.
LIke this: Now you try with both of the two photographs
The same works for architecture and landscape. This time, identify the geometric structures that will help to organize the experience with consideration for the positive and negative space. Try cropping in.
Save these drawings for future painting subjects.
Save these drawings for future painting subjects.
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