Video: How To Start A Still Life Drawing

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Learn how to start a still life drawing by breaking the objects down into simple forms in this free video art lesson.

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Hi this is Julia Karch for Expert Village.com. In this video series we will be talking about still life drawing for beginners. Break down the object to its simplest form. You have a plane here using prospective. Things are moving back and converging. You have a plane here, a plane here and a plane here. Break it down into that if that is the simplest form you can use. When you start looking at things in cubes, you will start to see where anything that is curving exists inside of that cube. So you draw inside of that and you would see how it exists on the surface. Then if you want to give it some kind of dimension you would work with shading and volume. There is volume that there are lines here, lines here and lines here. That is automatically going to give it a sense of three dimensionality and then if you start working with shading and how it rests on the table, you are going to see that there is a very dark shade under here which is automatically going to give some gravity to the object that you are working with. And then shading here, shading here and shading here and here. But the main thing to keep in mind when you are drawing is not an idea of perfection but not to draw what you think you see but draw what you see and enjoy it.

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How To Start A Still Life Drawing

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