http://painting-course.com Learn to Draw and Paint Online Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:37:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Continuing our exploration of the elements of drawing/painting now leads us to Value. Value is the term we use when referring to how dark or light a shadow is. This is extremely important as we progress towards painting because every color also has a darkness. We will be exploring the ... http://painting-course.com/lesson-10-value/ This lesson will deal with learning how to create a unit of measurement. You will use your pencil to measure and draw a still life which will be set up in front of you. In the first drawing by Honore Daumier you can see that the practice goes back many ... http://painting-course.com/lesson-9-measuring/ Now that we have got a good grasp of line, and the importance of varying our lines in our drawing we are going to continue on to another huge element of drawing/painting. That important element is form.  Correctly understanding form will give your paintings/drawings more depth. Traditionally schools have taught ... http://painting-course.com/lesson-8-form/ Line Variation. Drawing #13 "Line Variation Shoe" In these drawings you are going to be exploring line variation. It is important that the lines in your drawings have varying thicknesses. Because of its versatility and ability to make highly varied lines we will be using a brush and ink. This will make ... http://painting-course.com/lesson-7-line-variation/ Gesture Drawings and Observation In the following drawings we are going to work at getting loosened up. One problem many students encounter is that the more they concentrate, the harder the hold the pencil, the stiffer their arm becomes, and the tighter the drawings look. We are going to loosen ... http://painting-course.com/lesson-6-drawings-from-observation/ Negating and Identifying Powerful Symbols Drawing #8 Find an image of anyone. Could be a famous person, could be a relative. Doesn't matter who. But try to find an image that is at least is decently lit. You are going to stare at this image for three minutes. Trying to take ... http://painting-course.com/lesson-5-negating-symbolism/ Line Lines don't exist in reality. Everywhere you look you can see various forms bouncing into other forms, but no lines. This is the first thing to understand about a line. It is completely a creation of the human mind. We understand lines and pictures because we know how to read ... http://painting-course.com/lesson-4-line/ Finding Your Baseline Before we push forward into the lessons, we need to make a record of exactly where you are at now. This is your baseline. It can be a very daunting task but you are just going to have to jump in and start drawing! Open your sketchbook and ... http://painting-course.com/lesson-3-finding-your-baseline/ This is an optional fist assignment just because I don't want someone's access to the Internet to effect their ability to use this book . Those who can't make a blog will instead keep a sketchbook that also includes writing, and inspiration. Now for those of you who have regular access ... http://painting-course.com/lesson-2-finding-inspiration-and-documenting-it-in-your-blog-or-your-sketchbook/ Welcome to Wonderland “`Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); `now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!' (for when she looked down at her feet, they seemed to be almost ... http://painting-course.com/lesson-1/