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Perspective Grids
You can purchase or make grids of various kinds and use them as underlays for your perspective drawing. They break down into ‘exterior grids’ for FORMS and ‘interior grids’ for SPACES. You can google images of these to get the idea of the variety. I have used these quite a lot and they are one of the 4 major ways of doing ‘measured’ perspectives, perhaps the quickest for many projects:
1 – computer (try Sketchup),
2 – photoperspective (see the many vids on this on this site – use the Search Box),
2 – Plan Projection (also use the search Box);
3 – Underlay Grids. I plan more videos on this in future.
(Eraser – ism) Aspens In Snow Wtr Clr TAS Wintr Sp Feb 17, 2017
(Eraser – ism) Red Aspens Wtr Clr Demo TAS Shadbolt Feb 15, 2017
(Eraser – ism) Aspens In Snow Acrylic on White TAS Wintr Sp Feb 15 2017
(Eraser -ism) Aspens In Snow Acrylic – Vignette on Gray TAS Feb 15 2017
Eraser -ism Aspens Done for Art-Slam Charity Fundraiser Feb 12, 2017
Eraser -ism Aspens done for Artslam Semiahmoo Arts Charity Fundraiser Feb 12, 2017 – Done in 20 minutes each as part of a competition ‘paint-off’. Used white vinyl erasers to scrape out aspens. FUN AND QUICK. Because there were rules to the competition, I could not do a titanium white underpainting as per usual. So I painted direct on the primed canvas. This causes some ‘ghosting’ of the earlier horizontal background layers (not unattractive) which could not be scraped off thoroughly, as would be the case with a slick titanium white under layer. I have several video demos on this. Search for “Aspens” in search box.
Manikin Head Construction and Facial Features (5 Videos)
This is a series of five videos done at the Shadbolt Center in 2016 and gives useful info for drawing faces. For life drawing purposes at least watch videos 1 and 2 of 5. Knowing something about this, even though portraiture is not the goal, can contribute to life drawing. What you leave out is important, but knowing that certain lumps and bumps are there, and why, is a good thing. Form a personal goal of being able to construct the manikin head and place basic features on it at any angle, from your head, without a model. It will make it much easier when you do work from a model. (If you get misdirected to other videos, always come back to this entry to watch the next in sequence.)
Shadbolt TAS Drawing Manikin Head and Face vid 1 of 5
Shadbolt TAS Drawing Manikin Head and Face vid 2 of 5
Shadbolt TAS Drawing Manikin Head and Face vid 3 of 5
Shadbolt TAS Drawing Manikin Head and Face vid 4 of 5
Shadbolt TAS Drawing Manikin Head and Face vid 5 of 5