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hair practice cause i need it lmao

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Simple shapes to organic shapes - landscape. 5min

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lines

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Start with GEOMETRIC, SIMPLE SHAPES.

Then overlay to add organic shapes with the geometric shapes as a foundation.

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Line

conveys movement and mood 

Vanishing point

Horizontal/diagonal/vertical line

Contour lines ( outlines. )

Cross contour lines ( create value inside shape. )

Parallel lines

Hatch lines ( repeated short intervals generally in one direction. )

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Fundamentals are everything.

Move about, do not get stuck in one area.

Lay down lashes as a guide first, thicken them later.

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Fundamentals of Art

Form

Form makes objects appear more three dimensional giving them the illusion of volume. A good thing to learn is how to break complicated forms into simpler forms using cylinders, cubes, wedges, spheres and pyramids. This is useful because it will enable you to draw anything from different angles. This enables you to create any objects you want without needing the exact reference for it. This skill goes hand in hand with perspective. It helps to understand the form of objects so that you can place them in perspective.

Value and Lighting

Value and lighting is important to study for increasing your knowledge of form. Value and lighting helps suggest mood and heighten the storytelling of an image. It also helps your understanding of how to use color.

Anatomy

If you want to draw convincing figures and characters then anatomy is useful to learn. I’m not talking about internal organs here, I mean the proportion and structure of the human body on the outside. Knowledge of skeletons and muscles is handy to understand movement and surface forms. An understanding of the human form and how it moves also helps with placement of clothing.

Color Theory

Knowledge of color and how it can affect an image is a useful skill to learn. Different colors evoke different meanings, associations and moods. Color harmony can make or break your painting. Color is especially useful combined with a good knowledge of value and lighting.

Composition

Composition is an extensive subject on it’s own. It is about controlling the design or look of your image and defining focal points. Composition can help you improve the storytelling and aesthetics of your images. If an image is well composed it creates a better sense of mood and narrative. It will thus help you create more powerful images conveying your message.

Composition relies on the other fundamental skills and takes a long time to learn as a result. It will become clearer the more you create art with intention of what you are trying to say. It is worth looking at work of master artists, photographers and film directors to get a sense of what works. A good book for beginners is “Picture This: How Pictures Work” by Molly Bang.

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Further reading:

http://conceptartempire.com/what-are-the-fundamentals/

http://www.fundamentalsofpainting.com/blog/

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Christine Garner @ https://medium.com

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FORM STUDY (Notes)

“Lightest and darkest business.”

Four Questions I should be asking myself when studying form:

1) "Where is the light source?"

The INTENSITY of the Light Source

COLOUR of the Light Source

Time of Day (Direct sun = stronger. overcast = softer.)

2) "What is my geometry?" 

(If the planes have eyes, do they see the light source?)

Find the ground, it affects shadows and light source

3) "Find Lightest - via camera"

4) "Find Darkest - via camera"

“What is Light Environment?”

1) Light Source(s) - affects how bright the background is. (Which affects how bright the object is.)

2) Environment/Room

3) Object(s)

Note(s)

Light background is better for studies

Find the "cliff" for darkest shadows - light kicked off.

Start w/ finding average light and average dark

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