40 Days of Art: Brought to You by MIT

Okay, I lied. Today is not constructing the head. I thought I was going to be able to use something I'd done before but it turned out to be more complicated than starting it from scratch. Instead, I'm going to seriously disrupt my own personal artistic timeline and direct your attention to something that came my way only a couple of years ago, but which lays out a number of important fundamentals in a very accessible way, and is a great starting place for just about any sort of drawing you want to do.

Seeing the Future: A Guide to Visual Communication

Something particularly interesting is the idea they establish of your paper not being a flat piece of paper but being a window – draw on it as though you are drawing on a piece of glass through which you see the subject. It is much easier to draw convincing three-dimensional drawings if you can convince yourself that you are not making flat lines on a flat surface. it takes practise to deceive yourself this way, but it can be done!

I'm not going to promise what tomorrow will be, because that way lies disappointment. It will be a surprise!

40 Days of Art: Brought to You by MIT

Okay, I lied. Today is not constructing the head. I thought I was going to be able to use something I'd done before but it turned out to be more complicated than starting it from scratch. Instead, I'm going to seriously disrupt my own personal artistic timeline and direct your attention to something that came my way only a couple of years ago, but which lays out a number of important fundamentals in a very accessible way, and is a great starting place for just about any sort of drawing you want to do.

Seeing the Future: A Guide to Visual Communication

Something particularly interesting is the idea they establish of your paper not being a flat piece of paper but being a window – draw on it as though you are drawing on a piece of glass through which you see the subject. It is much easier to draw convincing three-dimensional drawings if you can convince yourself that you are not making flat lines on a flat surface. It takes practise to deceive yourself this way, but it can be done!

I'm not going to promise what tomorrow will be, because that way lies disappointment. It will be a surprise!