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greenstormTwo ways of drawing:
Sketch a very light, general outline across the whole canvas. Go back and add clearer lines, not always in exactly the same spot, working from large to small. Refine the lines more. Add shading. Refine the shading. First the thrust of the pictures emerge and then the details.
This will often capture proportion and composition exquisitely; detail may not be exact.
Put your pencil on the paper and your eye on the object. Move the pencil along with your eye, capturing a single line in continuous, careful, complete detail. The whole picture can be done in one continuous line, moving from detail to the next closest detail until the whole panorama has emerged.
This will often capture detail and nuance exquisitely; proportion may not be accurate.
Some of us are more suited to one technique than the other. Some finished products prefer one or the other process. Both are important in the world.
The former is often how I approach ideas in conversation: a broad sweep with the intent of going back with the other person and refining, adding here and erasing there. When thinking I work in either mode, depending, though I spend more time in the former.
Sketch a very light, general outline across the whole canvas. Go back and add clearer lines, not always in exactly the same spot, working from large to small. Refine the lines more. Add shading. Refine the shading. First the thrust of the pictures emerge and then the details.
This will often capture proportion and composition exquisitely; detail may not be exact.
Put your pencil on the paper and your eye on the object. Move the pencil along with your eye, capturing a single line in continuous, careful, complete detail. The whole picture can be done in one continuous line, moving from detail to the next closest detail until the whole panorama has emerged.
This will often capture detail and nuance exquisitely; proportion may not be accurate.
Some of us are more suited to one technique than the other. Some finished products prefer one or the other process. Both are important in the world.
The former is often how I approach ideas in conversation: a broad sweep with the intent of going back with the other person and refining, adding here and erasing there. When thinking I work in either mode, depending, though I spend more time in the former.
