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Be Curious - Draw an Object
- Notice What You Like - Part 1 and 2
- Draw a Scene
- Draw a Leaf or Flower
- Take A Minute
- Taking Rubbings
- Stitch Memory Journal
- Draw an Object
- All you need to know about this activity
- About drawing from observation
- Step 1: Which object to choose?
- Step 2: What background shall I place it on?
- Step 1-2
- Step 3: Size of the drawing, and where to place it
- Make a viewfinder
- Step 4: Make a basic sketch
- Step 5: Light and dark (tone), and shadows
- Step 5 continued: Highlights
- Step 6: Texture
- What next?
- Draw an Object Video Guide
- Wellbeing Art Tour - Discover Manchester Art Gallery
- Visiting an Art Gallery
"The 'Five a Day - Notice' activity gave me time to appreciate my surroundings."
Step 3: Size of the drawing, and where to place it
- To avoid running out of space on your sheet of paper (another common pitfall), it helps to plan how big you’d like the drawing to be and how it will fit onto the paper. Ask yourself where do I start on the paper?
Use your digital camera or phone camera to help compose your drawing:
- Carefully ‘frame’ the image in a way you’d like your drawing to look, and take a snapshot. You now have a mini image of the view you want to draw (or paint). Look at the digital image display to see how the overall main shape ‘sits in the frame’
- Now imagine your paper is the frame, and sketch your object on your paper, in the same position you see it framed in your camera
This is a useful way to begin a drawing (or painting). Following this, you then put away the camera, look carefully at the real details and capture them on paper - drawing from life.
