Being once ok at drawing at school I neglected my skills when things like work, a job and adult life got in the way so I decided a few months back to try and sharpen my skills again as drawing skills often complement 3d skills. Basically I was wondering what people's opinions are on drawing from books or images on the…
Wow your sketchbook is awesome! Really like your train sketches, seems like a good way to fit in drawing every day. As for drawing, I just joined a life drawing class so that every week I know I'm doing some focused drawings from life. Maybe find some like-minded people and meet up in a cafe every weekend to covertly draw…
We're hating on tracing cause what you're doing is not tracing :P Tracing means following the lines. By noting and drawing things like the line of action, some perspective, and porportion, you're actively thinking about what you're doing and learning from it. Tracing is just mindless tracing :p IMO, the best way to learn…
Draw as often as you can from life, reference and from your head. I draw on the train to work every day and I really feel like it has helped a lot. So even if I can't squeeze it in at any other time, at least I have a good 45-60 mins of 'life drawing' everyday. It's all goooood!
@Monkeyboy - that's a great idea, that's one benefit to travelling by train as well cos if you had to drive then obviously you can't draw (well, not well anyway) question is do you draw the person opposite! :)
I have/had a difficult time drawing things that weren't right in front of me aswell. Everyones hating on tracing but thats what I did to improve my drawing, and it worked great! :) I took pics online of people (naked:P) and started in photoshop drawing the line of action over them, then then rough perspective lines, then…
I enjoy doing 20 second gesture drawings from www.posemaniacs.com in my free time. It helps making fast and accurate observations of the whole. Spending your time with this stuff should be more helpful than tracing. If you draw from real people on the street, it's even better. If you have time why not join a drawing group…
I just googled life drawings classes for bolton but didn't really find anything, I went uni here (and actually posed for a life drawing class a few years back!) but not sure if they still do it so will check it out, not heard of drawing groups before but yer anything like that would appeal to me, there's no-one in my life…
That's another great exercise, drawing contour lines over objects and imagining how the surface flows/how it looks from that perspective and intersects etc. @vassago: I'm the same, starting a drawing can be so painful for me cos i've a tendency to want it to be perfect right from the start. Also it can be frustrating when…