Draw with jazza art block
#DRAW WITH JAZZA ART BLOCK HOW TO#
It's about learning how to see better, and that's a skill that will help you no matter what sort of art you want to pursue.
The kind of observational drawing you're learning here isn't just about learning how to draw your living room or that coffee cup on your desk or that guy who fell asleep at his table in Starbucks. Put style out of mind and do the best drawings you can. If you watch an hours worth of videos or spend an hour reading, don't be surprised if you have to spend 10+ hours drawing before what you learned really clicks. You can read all the books and watch all the videos in the world, but the five things you really need to do to improve your drawing are: The key to a good study is to a clear goal in mind when you start, something specific you want to take away from it! Here's a video from Color and Scribbles on master studies. If you get tired of all of that, it never hurts to do a master study, which just means picking a piece of art you think is interesting and copying it. Draw from life as much as you can, it's the best teacher! Your eye is just better at seeing things like values, too, and drawing from life means you're not worried about things like lens distortion. When you draw from life, though, you have to simplify down what you're seeing from 3d into 2d instead of letting the camera do it for you. If you've got a picture of a cat on your phone that you really want to draw, draw the phone with the picture on it, or even better, draw your hand holding the phone with the picture of the cat on it!ĭrawing from photos isn't bad, and very often you'll find that a photo is the only way you're going to be able to get a reference for a specific subject. Drawing from life is the best practice there is. Establishing clear light and shadow shapes is the most important part! Here's Steve Huston talking about keeping your rendering simple.ĭraw what you see. You don't need to kill yourself trying to render out every drawing to a high degree of finish. Here's a video from Love Life Drawing - there'll be more of their stuff in the Figure Drawing starter pack - with an exercise to help you draw what you see. How to Shade a Drawing and his 2 hour live shading demoĭraw With Jazza talks about deliberate practice in this video on how to practice art effectively and keep it interesting at the same time. While Proko tends to focus on figure drawing he's got some good basic drawing stuff as well: This is Sadie Valeri showing how to start your drawings with a loose block-in. These are the 'greatest hits' that you'll get the most use from: They're not pithy little 5 minute 'cover one topic quickly' things they're recording of his classroom lectures, so they're all around an hour or more long. John Muir Laws is a great teacher with a lot of great videos. If you end up with a stack of drawings with notes all over them, that's a good thing! That stack and those notes becomes your next project: redraw them with those notes in mind.
If the video mentions something like a mistake you know you made in a previous drawing, pause the video, grab that drawing, and make a note of that mistake. Treat them more like a class you attend once or twice a week, and take notes while you're watching.
Short, simple, very basic, but is a good "I've never drawn at all before, how the hell do I start?" introduction.įor the rest of these videos, don't try to power through them as quickly as you can. This is /u/cajolerisms favorite video, how to draw anything.