Sunday, April 30, 2023

100 Days of Drawing (Week 3)

Art's Axiom

  1. If you want to learn to draw, draw every day.

This week's drawings

This week we'll learn the cylinder, use the cylinder to draw tubes, continue using the cube to draw more complex structures, and draw manga:


Materials:
  • graphite pencil
  • charcoal pencil
  • eraser
  • paper (printer paper, notebook, etc)
  • colors (colored pencils, crayons, watercolor, etc)
  • alternatives to the above: smart phone or tablet drawing app

Day 16: the cylinder


Mark gives step by step instructions for drawing cylinders in Lesson 10 of his book, You can draw in 30 days : the fun, easy way to learn to draw in one month or less.  He starts with a foreshortened circle for the top, a line for each of the sides, and a foreshortened circle at the bottom.  He then asks you to create two more cylinders behind the first one and shows you how to shade them and draw shadows to create the illusion of three dimensions. Here is a link to his video: You Can Draw in 30 Days: Day 10.

I added Hello Kitty to my cylinders to make them more fun.  Here is a How to Draw Hello Kitty by Art For Kids Hub (an 8 minute video with 11 million views. Use shift-N to get past the advertisements)

Day 17: advanced-level cylinders


In Lesson 11 Mark guides you in drawing a cityscape of cylinders.  He begins by bringing your attention to using size and overlap as methods to create three dimensional objects in 'space'.  He then goes into a step by step tutorial for drawing.  Lesson 11 starts on page 105 of his book.

I decided to do Lesson 11's bonus challenge: holes - cylinders going down versus cylinders going up.  A hole is a good place for a meerkat to hide in. Here is HTDraw's How to Draw a Meerkat Easy Step by Step (4 minutes, 2.3K views).

Here is a link to mark's video for this lesson: You Can Draw in 30 Days: Day 11

Day 18: constructing with cubes


Here is a link to Lesson 12, Constructing with Cubes in Mark Kistler's You can draw in 30 days : the fun, easy way to learn to draw in one month or less. He uses cubes to build a house with a pitched roof. He also gives us a peek at using two point perspective to create the illusion of space.  Finally, he uses cubes to 'carve out' the interior space of the house.

Here is the link to Mark's video of this lesson: You Can Draw in 30 Days: Day 12



Day 19: chibi proportion


In their book You Can Draw Manga Chibi Characters, Critters & Scenes: A step-by-step guide for learning to draw cute and colorful manga chibis and critters, Samatha Whitten and Jeannie Lee provide instructions for creating chibi characters.  They begin with the head and neck; give examples of drawing the eyes, and hair; and draw a chibi experiencing various emotions.  They give you manikins for chibi kid bodies and adult bodies and example drawings of clothing (shirts, pants, shorts, shoes, purses). 

I've done sketches of the manikins.  I think of them as bulky stick-figures. Note that the 'adult' chibi's head is proportionally smaller than the 'kid' chibi's head. I encourage you to think about these as guides; tricks to help you create three dimensional drawings of the characters that live in your imagnination.

Here are three YouTube videos for your consideration:


Day 20: manga faces


In his book, Mastering Manga, How To Draw Manga Faces, Mark Crilley gives you step-by-step instructions for drawing: 

Here are some manga face and hair videos that you may like:

How to Draw Manga Girl Face in Front, 3/4, and Side View by Love2DrawManga ( 11 minutes, 165K views)
How to draw anime hair | Step by step easy! by miikobelle (8 minutes, 31 K)


Day 21: manga eyes


See Chapter 2, Drawing Eyes starting on page 26 of Drawing manga : animals, chibis, and other adorable creatures by J C Amberlyn. J C gives us some tips on making manga eyes:
  • leave space at the corners
  • horizontal oval for basic eye shape
  • the iris and pupil normally continue above upper eyelid
  • drawing highlights, larger one can overlap the iris
  • sketch your drawing in pencil, then ink in your drawing
After sketching with a graphite pencil (HB), I darkened my lines with a charcoal pencil (PRANG 601-M) and then inked in the right eye.  Charcoal pencils make nice, dark lines

For a video tutorial see How to Draw Manga Eyes! Step by Step, Slow Tutorial for Beginners! by Love2DrawManga (a 16 minute video with 1.3 million views)

Day 22: manga hair


The Anime Art Magazine article Drawing hair: all you need to know to get started! provides ideas to keep in mind while drawing hair on our characters: hair origin; three hair "sections"; hair bundling; and relation between hair style and length to character.

WikiHow gives us tutorials for 6 Ways to Draw Anime Hair.


In his book, Mastering Manga, How To Draw Manga Faces, Mark Crilley has examples of manga hairstyles:

Here are three video tutorials on for drawing manga hair:




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