Draw an OrangeOnce again, when choosing something to draw think of your composition. In this case the drawing looks interesting because it is half peeled and a few single orange sections have been set aside. It is important also to leave a lot of clear white within the orange for contrast. The little dots I usually do with an embossing tool. If you do not know what that is, look at my art material glossary page. The tool presses small round indents into the paper which makes it easy to draw over it leaving clear white dots.
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Draw an Old FaceThis drawing will take at least two days, so you might want to finish it on your catch up day. Notice that the face is quiet foreshortened. Imagine the line on which the eyes are place and see that the mouth is much straighter in comparison. This portrait could be done in pencil, pen or ink. In pen or ink you have to do create the features with cross-hatching.
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Draw Simple ShapesToday I want you to draw some simple shapes by using cross-hatching with different pencil grades. Start with the lighter pencils today and add the darker ones wherever needed. Try not to use your wrist for movement but use your whole arm. See this as an exercise for applying strokes rather than trying to achieve a perfect drawing.
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Draw a StarfishToday I want you to draw a very detailed starfish depicting all the different textures and shadings. Make sure that you have all the varied tonal values rather as most beginners don't observe the full contrast that a subject provides. So make sure you have some almost black areas as well as complete white and many different layers of grey in between.
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Draw a Still LifeIf you have a smaller table or coffee table, place any items you may wish to create a still life. Just by doing this you fill a whole year of drawings. Always think about your composition by letting some items overlap and others placed apart from the other objects. Uneven numbers of objects is preferred, in this case the fifth item is the place mat itself.
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Draw a Check BoardDraw a check board at an interesting angle using a two point perspective. You might want to give the background a graphite wash, which means you are allowed to smudge the graphite with a paper stump, which I usually do not like doing as beginners often smudge their drawings because they can't achieve the result they want by just drawing. But sometimes it can be used as an under drawing to enhance the effect.
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Draw a CrabToday we are drawing a simple crab. Did you know that there are over crab 6,793 species? As they have no backbones their exoskeleton protects them from predators. The smallest type the pea crab is only a few millimetres long whereas the Japanese spider is the biggest with a legs span up to 4 metres.
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