The Drawing Studio: Drawing Fundamentals I, Week 6

To expand my drawing skills, I'm taking a class at the Drawing Studio, an artist cooperative here in Tucson. This is a series of posts outlining what we are doing in the class, week by week.

Week six expanded the subject of perspective. Rather than drawing boxes, however, this time, we drew the interior of rooms. To do this, we used one point perspective, where walls that do not face the viewer straight on all go to a single vanishing point. We still used our measuring stick to get the proportions of things, though.

The Drawing Studio: Drawing Fundamentals I, Week 5

To expand my drawing skills, I'm taking a class at the Drawing Studio, an artist cooperative here in Tucson. This is a series of posts outlining what we are doing in the class, week by week.

Week five introduced us the the subject of perspective. Unlike the perspective techniques that we learned in High School, one or two point perspective, we learned how to measure perspective using our measuring stick.

To draw a cube shape, we labeled the hypothetical corner points with with letters and found the points like this:

1. Find AB.
2. Find the distance from AB to CD.
3. Find point D on line AB.
4. Compare AB's length to CD. (One face complete)
5. Find distance of line EF from AB.
6. Find point F on line AB.
7. Compare length of EF to AB. (Second face complete)
8. Find point G on line AE.

The Drawing Studio: Drawing Fundamentals I, Week 4

To expand my drawing skills, I'm taking a class at the Drawing Studio, an artist cooperative here in Tucson. This is a series of posts outlining what we are doing in the class, week by week.

For week four, we drew plants. We started out doing quick thumbnails of various plants. We then settled in for a long drawing. The idea was to give just enough detail to indicate what kind of plant it was, but not so much detail that we got bogged down.

Long leafy plant thumbnail.	Aloe Vera thumbnail.
A two hour study of a plant in pencil and charcoal. 18"x24". This particular plant was a cactus with big curly leaves on top.