Video Tutorials
Drawing To Learn
I learn something every time I draw. I always have a goal and an image of how I want my piece of art to turn out. But I try to keep my focus more on the process than on the product. My work doesn’t always turn out the way I envisioned, or even to my satisfaction. But I always learn something. Telling myself I’m DRAWING TO LEARN, instead of learning to draw, helps me to stay objective about my own work and not get caught up in a success/failure mentality. And, I DO learn to draw all along the way.
I developed a series of DRAWING TO LEARN tutorials based on the things that were hardest for me to learn. I have discovered that most obstacles in successful drawing—of any style or media—have in some way to do with perceiving and rendering 4 things: angles, planes, proportion and composition. Below are links to You Tube videos, 8 to 12 minute in length, of exercises that helped me and many of my students to develop those 4 skills.
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ON SOME CELL PHONE DEVICES. You can view the tutorials directly on You Tube by going to that website and searching: LucyEllenSmith.
Instruction on Seeing and Rendering Angles
Click on the links below for short tutorial videos on YOU TUBE about beginning to identify and render angles in a drawing or painting:
L1(Lesson 1) FindingAnglesExercise
Instruction on Seeing and Rendering Planes
Click on the links below for short tutorial videos on YOU TUBE about beginning to identify and render planes in a drawing or painting:
L10 (Lesson 10) Planes Pitcher Still Life
Instruction on Proportions
Click on the links below for short tutorial videos on YOU TUBE about beginning to identify and render accurate proportions in a drawing or painting:
Instruction on Composition
Click on the link below for a short tutorial video on YOU TUBE about beginning the process of composition by choosing what to include in a drawing or painting:
Instruction on Tone or Value
Click on the link below for a short tutorial video on YOU TUBE about seeing and rendering tone or value (lights and darks) in a graphite drawing: