Drawing: The Only Drawing Book You'll Ever Need to Be the Artist You've Always Wanted to Be by Kathryn Temple
Complex images may seem like a daunting challenge to face, with intricate designs and quirks that make it pop out. So how do you replicate that in your own drawings? Kathryn Temple delves into the solution in her book, Drawing: The Only Drawing Book You'll Ever Need to Be the Artist You've Always Wanted to Be, by using the idea that any shape can be broken down and simplified into basic shapes and lines. Temple explains the concept creatively, saying, "The lines we use in drawing often represent the edges of an object, or the point at which one thing overlaps or bumps up against another thing. Learning to draw with line is like learning a new language. You have to translate what you see - three-dimensional objects that take up real space - into the two-dimensional language of line" (Temple 20).When you apply this concept into your own drawings, Temple goes on talking about how you have to identify each of the lines and shapes inside of what you want to draw, then combining them to create the full picture (Temple 22).
First, I chose my picture, which I decided to draw Cinderella's Castle at Disney Land (since I had just been there recently). Next, I identified the lines and shapes within the picture I was drawing. Then, I put together the pieces to make an outline of my drawing. Finally, I used shadowing and realism elements from my last post to create the final product.
Do you think this technique of finding lines and shapes really helps with complex drawings, or do you think that it's just an extra process that'll slow you down?
Works Cited
Temple, Kathryn. Drawing: the Only Drawing Book You'll Ever Need to Be the Artist You've Always Wanted to Be. Sterling Children's Book, 2014.
Awesome post and drawing, your explanations are worded clearly and are easy to understand. quick tip for drawing from a photo that you took: an essential part to sizing things up to be the right length and size from photo or real life to paper is to have a scale or a grid. Some people don't have intricate tools for this but you can easily hold your pencil or something up to scale if you were actually there or if it's just the photo. This way, you can scale your drawings pretty well. for example the castle is one pencil high if you hold the pencil in front of you, then size it the same on paper. this technique can be a scale for any shape or gap in the drawing to be like the real thing
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