Perfecting Your Drawings
Updated: Apr 8
Perfecting Your Drawings
Develop and enrich your sketching from this…
A drawing is just that, it is a basic sketch (a draft) or a rending which represents an object, a subject, or a noun. Bringing your representation to the level of it being classified as a piece of art takes perfecting the drawing by refining it until it becomes a created artwork.
...to a detailed complete drawing
Collection & Exhibit: The Monochrome Exhibition
Elements and Principles of Fine Drawing & Painting
These are the foundation (the footer building blocks) of drawing & painting
Point – Pointillism (large & small marks: irregular dots)
Line – Thick & thin, vertical & horizontal, length & width (Directional: diagonal, curved, and scribbling)
Shape – The use of isometrical forms
Ephesus – Overview with a main focal point
Visual Balance – Distribution of color, line, and form, (how its’ spread out in the composition)
Harmony – rational development or association with other matter in the art
Rhythm – one of the principles of art which indicate movement
Texture – the surface of the object and subject
Tonal Value – Tints, tones, shade (light & shadows)
Position in space, focus on location; side-by-side, forefront & background
Proportion – the relationship between different elements of art (Proportion creates an illusion about the distance and an object’s size form when compared with other forms in the art)
Size – Proportion concerning item placement (side-by-side, foreground, or background)
Prospective – Three-dimensional illusion (Horizon line with vanishing points)
Pattern – Repetition (repeating the same “shape,” “design,” “form,”)
Space – Negative (Space around an object/subject)
Blending – Hatching & cross-hatching, smearing, (transitioning from one value (tint, tone, or color) to another)
All the elements and principles listed above, when combined in art, cause great creations.
