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Well a lot of you were asking about how to make a cheap easel so I decided to make some instructions instructions and a video. This easel was designed to be very little work and to take very few tools and of course to be … Continue readingEasy $20 Easel
For this next lesson we will finally do painting. And congratulations every one for putting in all the hard work to get to this point. And do not worry I am going to do digital painting also but it will be coming up in future … Continue readingPatrick’s Free Art Course – Lesson 05 Painting (Traditional) – Introduction
Well this exercise will be a sort of test to make sure you have learned the basics of what you need. It will not be to see if you know everything about anatomy because you cant know it all at this point:) So even after … Continue readingPatrick’s Free Art Course – Lesson 04 Anatomy – Exercise N
For this next exercise we will do some more gesture drawing to loosen up from the last work:) For this one I would like you to do several simple style gesture type drawings. Really try and capture the gesture and movement of the person. Have … Continue readingPatrick’s Free Art Course – Lesson 04 Anatomy – Exercise L
OK for this exercise we want to do several studies of hands in different poses. You can use the constructive method on this one.
For this next exercise you will do a full detailed figure using the construction methods of Bridgeman and Loomis etc.
OK for this exercise I want you to do a head from your imagination using the construction methods you learned from Loomis, Bridgeman and Vilppu etc. Also do not do the head strait on but do it at an angle.
OK now we are going to start doing some master studies. When doing a master study the aim is not just to copy the image but try and understand how and why they did things. For example look at the way the lighting and shading … Continue readingPatrick’s Free Art Course – Lesson 04 Anatomy – Exercise E
For exercise D we are going to do an drawing. The écorché is a drawing of the anatomy without the skin. In the past they used to do both drawings and sculptures of people and horses etc with just the muscles and bones etc. And … Continue readingPatrick’s Free Art Course – Lesson 04 Anatomy – Exercise D
For exercise C we are going to do a self portrait in B&W. You can use pencil, charcoal or another B&W medium you feel comfortable using. But just no computers yet:) Here are some famous examples of self portraits by Courbet and Rembrandt to get … Continue readingPatrick’s Free Art Course – Lesson 04 Anatomy – Exercise C
OK now for some gesture drawing. If you have read the homework you should know what this is:) If not it is a fast sketch that is only trying to capture the essence of the pose. Any way go ahead and do two or three … Continue readingPatrick’s Free Art Course – Lesson 04 Anatomy – Exercise B
For exercise A we will see how much you learned from the home work. Fill a page with skulls at all different angles. They do not have to be super detailed but they do need to be detailed enough to be able to see if … Continue readingPatrick’s Free Art Course – Lesson 04 Anatomy – Exercise A
Human anatomy and figurative art is a wonderful and complex subject. So for a subject this complex you will need more than a quick over view. Or a few online tutorials. It will take dedicated study and practice to get it right. With that in … Continue readingPatrick’s Free Art Course – Lesson 04 Anatomy – Introduction
For Supplement number two I have decided to add The Famous Artists Course. Here is what Wikipedia says about the course. ” The idea was conceived by Albert Dorne as a result of a conversation with Norman Rockwell. For the founding faculty, Dorne recruited Rockwell, … Continue readingPatrick’s Free Art Course – Supplementals 2
I have decided to also add supplemental elements to the art course to help flesh it out. The first supplement will the the addition of the Andrew Loomis art books. Loomis was an American illustrator but really he is best known from his art books. … Continue readingPatrick’s Free Art Course – Supplementals 1
OK now that you are up to speed on composition lets try putting it all together. Setup a still life in your light box you built from the previous lesson. You can use the blocks etc you already have or find things around your house … Continue readingPatrick’s Free Art Course – Lesson 04 Composition – Exercise A
For are next lesson we are going to move on to Composition. Wikipedia explains composition as “the placement or arrangement of visual elements or ingredients in a work of art, as distinct from the subject of a work. It can also be thought of as … Continue readingPatrick’s Free Art Course – Lesson 04 Composition – Introduction
Now using the light box you built for the last exercise we want to expand its use. Set up some new still lifes in it. You can use fruit, cups, jars, a skull, flowers just about anything. And of course you can use the charcoal … Continue readingPatrick’s Free Art Course – Lesson 03 Shading – Exercise G
For this next exercise we are going to build a kind of light box . This box is made so that you can set up still lifes with very controlled lighting. This controlled type of lighting is much easier for the new artist to draw. … Continue readingPatrick’s Free Art Course – Lesson 03 Shading – Exercise F
For this one we are going to expand the tools some. And if you decided to get some of the supplemental DVD’s and book’s you probably already have started using other materials. But if you have not lets do it now. To expand from just … Continue readingPatrick’s Free Art Course – Lesson 03 Shading – Exercise E