What is the important in drawing and the basics
Drawing is not just making marks on a sheet on paper, if in that case, drawing can be anything. There are some basic elements for the drawing to be considered and shown importance to get a good quality and skills in drawing. Below are the important basic elements of drawing.
Line is the most basic element
of the drawing. And in it's most basic definition, it's what separates one area
of the drawing plane from the other. A single line will segment your piece of
paper into "that area" and "this area". The more lines that
are added, the more complex and numerous the separations become: light from
dark, foreground from background, positive space from negative space. Line can
be uniform and all one width, or to be more interesting, and to convey more
information with a single line, a single line can
be of varying widths.
Shape occurs when the first line
is drawn. The most basic definition of shape is the white area on the paper.
Shape is the information that is presented between two or more lines, or is the
thing that is enclosed by line. Shape helps define the object that is depicted
as much as the collection of lines that make up the object in the drawing.
Incorrect use of shape will cause the drawing to "not look like what it's
supposed to be."
Proportion and Perspective. Proportion is
the size of one picture element in relation to the size of another. In other
words Proportion is what dictates that, in humans, legs are longer than arms,
the middle finger is longer than the pointer finger, and the nose is the same
length as the width of the eye. If proportion is incorrect in a drawing it
"doesn't look right".Perspective is the illusion that
further away things appear smaller. To make something appear to be farther away
from the viewer than the picture plane, draw it smaller than the object that is
closer to the picture plane. I've put proportion and perspective together as
one drawing element because they both use each other to work. If one is
incorrect, chances are the other is also incorrect.
Light and Shadow create depth and atmosphere
in a drawing. In order to make a drawing look "realistic" you need
shadow because in the real world everything has a shadow. If you draw something
with only one width line and don't render shadow, your drawing is going to look
flat, two dimensional, and unrealistic. Adding shadow automatically adds a
small bit of perspective to the drawing because the shadow indicates that
something is in front of and/or behind the object that would cause it to cast a
shadow.
The whole drawing. Before you even start the
drawing you will begin to automatically mentally place your picture elements on
the paper. You take into account the whole drawing surface and relate your
picture elements to the shape of your drawing surface. For example, if you're
wanting to draw a whole human body from head to foot you would mentally place
the head to one side (or top or bottom) of the drawing surface so that would
give you enough room to be able to draw the whole body and not run off the
paper. The shape of your drawing plane will help determine the composition of
your drawing. You would not effectively be able to draw a towering skyscraper
on a square piece of paper without cutting the top or bottom off. In the
example on the right, seeing the whole drawing means when you start, you know
where to place the eyes so the face will be in the center. Also, knowing that
the tie will run off the page is being aware of the whole drawing.
