Monday, June 26, 2023

100 Days of Drawing (week 10)


 This week’s drawings

Day 66: shojo manga
Day 67: a building in 3-point perspective
Day 68: blind contour drawing
Day 69: the ear
Day 70: the leg
Day 71: color harmony: complementary colors
Day 72: texture: using pen and ink


Materials:

  • pencil
  • eraser
  • paper (printer paper, notebook, etc)
  • waterproof ink pen
  • colors (colored pencils, crayons, watercolor, etc)
  • alternatives to the above: smart phone or tablet drawing app
I’ve added a waterproof ink pen to our materials.  We’ll be using this for drawing manga. Here are some options based on The Proof is in the Water:
You can follow the process used by The Proof is in the Water to test of pens around your house. 


Day 66: shojo manga


I saw this book, Manga Art for Everyone by Danica Davidson and Rena Saiya, at the library and though it would be a good jumping off point for a drawing.  I choose the four characters in the book that appealed to me:
  • shojo manga (shojo girl in Japanese; manga targeting teenage girls)
  • shonen manga (boys’ comics; manga targeting adolescent boys)
  • nekojin (cat person)
  • yokai (beings from old Japanese folklore)
I then looked for youtube demonstrations of these four and suggest we do one a week.

Classic shojo ma,. nga by Ponshadama (13 minutes, 3.6K views)

Ponshadama compares two different manga styles in another video How to draw manga - Shouen vrs Shoujo.



Day 67: a building in 3-point perspective


Circle Line Art School does a good job demonstrating drawing a building in 3-point perspective. As I watched I was impressed how easily the artist created his building, indicating he has a good deal of experience. With that in mind, once you make your guide lines to the three vanishing lines, experiment with creating your own building if the artist’s building is more frustrating than fun.

How to Draw in 3-Point Perspective for Beginners by Circle Line Art School (6 minutes, 117K views)

Here are two more videos to use as guides if you are hungry for more 3-point perspective drawing:

Day 68: blind contour drawing


Blind contour drawing is very similar to the contour drawing that we did last week, except for one thing. You do not look at your drawing! You keep your eyes focused on the object until you’ve completed at least one contour around the object.

The purpose of this is to train your eye and hand to work together.

Here are a couple of videos that will show you how it’s done if you need them:

The Best Exercise to Learn to Draw by César Cōrdova (4 minutes, 241K views)

Blind Contour Drawing by OnlineDrawingLessons (3 minutes, 279K views)


Day 69: the ear


I am giving you links to 2 step by step instructions for drawing the ear.  The first, by Frajana, is for beginners.  The second, by Proko, encourages you to do more shading to make the more three dimensional.

I’ve also provided a link to Proko’s video on ear anatomy.

How to Draw the Ear for Beginners by Frajana Drawing Academy (6 minutes, 810K views)

How to Draw the Ear - Anatomy and Structure by Proko (6 minutes, 427K views)

How to Draw Ears - Step by Step by Proko (8 minutes, 505K views)



Day 70: the leg


How to draw legs by Chommang_drawing (23 minutes, 311K views) is a good place to start learning to draw legs.  Chommang gives us a box to model the pelvic, tubes to model the upper legs, and tapering tubes to model the lower legs.  He then guides us as he draws 7 sets of legs from imagination. He then draws 2 figures from photograph references.


How to Draw Legs by Mikeymegamega (18 minutes, 318K views) is the next level up for drawing legs. Mikey leads us through modeling legs with a bowl for the hips and balls for the knee.

How to Draw Legs by David Finch (18 minutes, 230K views)


Day 71: color harmony: complementary colors


Complementary colors is a color harmony made by using colors directly opposite from each other on the color wheel.

Jacob Olesen’s article, What are complementary colors? Learn how to use them the right way, lists the complementary color pairs and provides a couple of recommendations on making them work:
  • make one of the colors the dominate one and use the other one an accent color.
  • mix the colors to make dynamic shadows 
Riekreate talks about color harmonies and focuses on Complementary Colors in her video (7 minutes, 106K views)

Anne Kerr shows us how to mix colors so they are bright and not muddy in her video Complementary Colours Explained by Anne Kerr Art Studio (17 minutes, 4K views)

I used complementary color pairs for the drawings on day 66 and 67.


Day 72: texture using pen and ink



Today’s drawing is to make 4 circles and shade each with a different pen and ink technique to turn them into spheres.  The virtual drawing instructor and I used:
  • contour lines
  • cross-hatching
  • scribbles
  • dots and dashes (mainly dashes)

How to draw with pen and ink by Drawing & Painting (7 minutes, 448K views)

Alphonso Dunn’s video show you how to draw other textures.  You might want to try one of those textures on your spheres.

How to Create Realistic Textures by Alphonso Dunn (12 minutes, 1.2M views)
How to Create Realistic Textures - Part 2 by Alphonso Dunn (8 minutes, 548K views)
















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