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40 Days of Art: Flipping
Mar. 19th, 2011 08:08 pmThis is mostly a trick used for animation, but it's so useful I don't see why it can't be used by anyone for anything.
As you're tracing your image, building up the construction and laying down contour lines, you're likely to get so much junk on your paper that you're unable to see the source image very clearly anymore. This is where flipping comes in! There's probably some part of your drawing hand that's always touching the paper (for me it's the pad down the pinky side of my palm) – use that to anchor your paper at the bottom, then lift the opposite corner to look at the image underneath. Lay the paper back down. Lift it up again. And back down. Faster. This is flipping!*
( More on Flipping, and an Instructional Video )
*And it's what Naveen does with the storybook at :25 in this video ... but he's using it more for its animating purpose. Oh, inside jokes! Ah hah hah!
As you're tracing your image, building up the construction and laying down contour lines, you're likely to get so much junk on your paper that you're unable to see the source image very clearly anymore. This is where flipping comes in! There's probably some part of your drawing hand that's always touching the paper (for me it's the pad down the pinky side of my palm) – use that to anchor your paper at the bottom, then lift the opposite corner to look at the image underneath. Lay the paper back down. Lift it up again. And back down. Faster. This is flipping!*
( More on Flipping, and an Instructional Video )
*And it's what Naveen does with the storybook at :25 in this video ... but he's using it more for its animating purpose. Oh, inside jokes! Ah hah hah!
