Referentie gevonden op Flickr, zoekterm 'Macro': 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Basic drawing, van Peter Han: 1, 2.

Tekenen wordt steeds meer een spelletje van vergelijken. Je wordt er ook sneller in!

Wie niet naar buiten wil kan via google Warehouse ook leuk oefenen. Vergeet niet om met de fov (camerainstelling) te spelen.

En als ik nu vergelijk, dan zie je, zij gebruiken hele andere kleuren.

Het Fries Museum included a loose sketch by J. Gardenier in an exhibition on Rembrandt’s paintings. Here's me trying to discover that technique.

Gardenier: This website has an article about the artist; “ De twee trokken er op uit om ‘naar het leven’ te werken. Eerst trok de kunstenaar met potlood een horizon en zette daarna een vlotte schets op. gemiddeld 30 × 40 cm. De voorstelling waste hij in met oost-indische inkt. “

Bewaar oude potjes / inkt kun je verdunnen.

Some thoughts and things; on keeping a small notebooks in an ‘always carry a sketchbook’ - kind of way. Drawing for fun, not so much to study.

Spilt some tea :(
keep your desk clean!

feel like doing them over
but then what's the point of doing this exercise? Making perfect cubes or making mistakes to get a feel for perspective ~ just move on and do better next time

Ebay for Reference images

Find those 'moody' early photographic prints by searching with keywords like 'Albumen print', Silver-based prints', 'Photogravure' + Mountain

bl.uk photographicprocesses

"The minor axis cuts an ellipse into two symmetrical halves through the narrower side."

Freehand lines within a grid.

Sometimes it's faster to guess, start with a loose sketch and then clean up your lines. If you start with a grid or a cube you've established perspective, you know where the camera is.

Books on learning perspective:

Perspective Made Easy by Ernest Ralph Norling. Scott robertson's how to draw (of course). Another favorite is The Theory and Practice of Perspective, by George Adolphus Storey. It's difficult to follow, but you'll find this book goes way more in depth than the more modern sources do. Artists in 1910 did not have 3d animation software to solve their problems, this book is full diagrams showing how to plot perspective by hand.

Software tricks that help you figure out the perspective your image is in.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9PIUG2fjcQ
• Carapace / Using Epic Perspective Grid Generator
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xMkpCPlDhk
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TmoMaotraA
• Google gives you nice alternatives to carapace
• https://dribbble.com/shots/1188403-perspective-tools-for-photoshop
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mtrrbz-1Co
• Sketchup does something similar with Match Photo
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hSyw6bobpc

In ditzelfde boek wordt ook een methode omschreven waarbij soldaten in het verleden perspectieftekenen gebruikten voor het berekenen van de afstand die een kanonskogel zal vliegen.
Alsof ze via een of ander optisch fenomeen terugrekenen hoe hoog of laag de loop van het kanon moet staan. Precies hoe ze dit gedaan hebben weet ik niet, misschien kan iemand mij dit eens uitleggen.

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Draw plants ~ A tiny mistake here or there? That's not so bad. Portraits are more difficult, we all know what a face should look like and because of this, it's easy to see where you got the proportions wrong. With these complex abstract things it's not so noticeable where your drawing is off.

Things are 3d but paper is flat.

Try to get your drawing to read as if it's an actual thing in 3d space. Remember to find the big shapes first and then use contour lines to show how they sit in 3d space.

I've discovered a new interest in drawing, from the beginning:

How to hold the pencil, How to sharpen. Kwastjes schoonmaken met zeepje in de hand. Van demo's (video) kun je veel leren, let goed op hoe hij het potlood vasthoud. Kleine dingen zijn niet altijd vanzelfsprekend.

Improvised drawing easel

There are creative alternatives if you don't have an easel to work at. Tape your drawing to a large closet or door, the wall if you want. I've been using a drawing board: clip your paper to a wooden board and lean it against your desk.

The dexterity exercises from Peter Han's dynamic sketching, but done standing. Tiring! simple things like point to point / warming up becomes difficult again.

Drawing standing up allows for a greater range of motion. Draw from your whole arm, not just your wrist, this gives you more freedom to work and it'll be easier to get large flowing lines.

After some time away from studies, getting back on track is going to be a bit tricky.
it's time to re-evaluate; what I was working on before, to see what's important now still, and then from there it will be easier to figure out what steps to take next.

Putting older work online
will hopefully motivate me to drown it in new, better work.