Hey everyone, Steve here for another drawing session. If you’re an artist, I’m going to let you in on a little secret – get a camera and keep it handy. It can be the one on your phone or something more advanced. Take a lot of pictures, and try to get a feel for what makes a photo interesting because a lot of that skill also applies to drawing.
Over time, your photo library will grow and you’ll have a lot of material to work from – it feels a lot less like cheating when you reference your own photos.
Now a lot of people swear by drawing from observation, but there are some things that that just won’t work for – and squirrels are one of them. They are just too fast. Drawing from a reference is ok and it doesn’t have to be copied pixel by pixel – you’re not a printer. You are free to edit the composition, add things that aren’t there and anything else you can think of.
Maybe you’ll notice I’m not just using pencil for this one – I’m adding some ink to make some
Dark shadows and details. I think it makes pencil work a lot more interesting. In photography, the difference between the darkest shadows and brightest highlights is called dynamic range, and so I’m trying to make the shadows darker than graphite allows.
Anyway, thanks for watching and I’ll see you in the next one. Goodbye for now.
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