| Even experienced creative persons occasionally have a hard time when crafting naturalistic three-dimensional drawings. Naturally they know the basic concepts and produce naturalistic drawings intuitively. But occasionally yet the most skilled find elements in their work that appear distorted and not natural.
For beginners it's yet much more difficult, they've to exercise hard to move up a training curve. It's well-known that outstanding drawing skills are the result of hard exercising. Instead learning the three most important principles of third-dimensional drawing will make things easier for you. They can be a shortcut to improving your drawing skills and help even experienced draftsmen to pinpoint parts that call for reworking.
So what makes a picture look realistic and three-dimensional? There are three principles that contribute to the naturalistic appearance of your drawings. Every single one of them must be mastered. Together they ensure near to perfect outcomes:
* Composition
* Perspective
* Lighting and Shadows
Composition
Does composition actually contribute to the three-dimensional appearing of your images? Naturally! The three-dimensional appearance of any drawing has much to do with the relationships between the various elements inside the drawing. You can create a drawing consisting of elements that all follow the rules of perspective and have perfect illumination and dark parts. But a bad composition will spoil most of the three-dimensional effect.
There's only one crucial composition rule: allow your drawing's elements intersect! Often I see beginning artists averting to let elements in their drawings intersect , because they're afraid to ruin it completely.
Indisputable - if your drawing has lots of overlapping elements it gets more difficult to draw. There are more dark parts and also perspective and dimensions of the elements must be much more exact.
That’s challenging indeed. Tightly arranged elements in your picture will uncover all weak points. On the other side when you manage to get the perspective, illumination and shadows proper, a denser arrangement will beef up the three-dimensional effect.
So have courage to put your picture’s elements closer together. Allow them to intersect and show how good you can draw them according to the principles of three-dimensional pictures.
Perspective
Producing a drawing employing accurate perspective is the point where a little bit maths comes into play. Do not worry - no rocket science know-how, simply drawing a few additional lines.
When creating a drawing with the rules of perspective in mind you ensure that:
* your objects have the correct dimensions and size
* your objects have the correct deformation according to the viewer's distance
* your objects are arranged correctly to each other
All this is achieved by employing one simple rule:
“Picture elements and parts of them grow smaller the farther they're away.”
This rule cannot be stressed too much. If you fail to apply it properly, your pictures will look warped and strange. So drawing some additional lines will help you to apply this rule correctly.
Light and Shadow
The correct illumination and shading is the third important law for naturalistic looking three-dimensional scenes. It's for the lightings in your drawings that shadows appear. And shadows are essential for a realistic looking drawing - except you draw “gray rainy day” scenes only.
To create naturalistic shadows there are a few rules you've to consider:
* you must know where exactly the illumination originates from
* this enables you to find the proper size of the shade
* the proper bearing and alignment for the shade
* and the correct shape of the shade
Unluckily naturalistic shadows are not that comfortable to realize. But there are a few useful tricks. Exactly now I'm writing on a how-to explaining these techniques step-by-step. It'll follow here soon.
This is just a draft of my conceptions on how to learn drawing.
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