Draw better, faster: www.laurenballillustrator.com... _____________ When you're a beginner, learning to draw realistic eyes can actually slow down your progress as an artist.
Im a newer artist who's been working on drawing for the last few years, and this video was eye-opening (pun intended). You've got a way with teaching. Thank you for the great video :]
Thanks for your kind words, they mean a lot. I wish you the best and hope your journey learning to draw isn't frustrating. Drawing can be so fun and rewarding! 😊
I think the cat analogy is incorrect. Cat is not one of the three or four words you use in every sentence. If you are a portrait artist, the eyes are one of the four items you draw every time, as in eyes, nose, mouth, and hair. The cat analogy would work if there were only five words.
Thanks for your comment. I chose the example of drawing a cat because it touched on the broader idea that these skills of observing negative shapes and angles apply to anything we draw. A "cat" is a "thing" in the same sense that "eye" is a "thing"- our brains have a stored visual library of these "things", these symbols that we've learned since childhood. You're right, I could have used "hair", since when we were children we learned to treat hair as a symbol as well when we drew people. But for the point I was trying to make, the idea extends beyond drawing portraits. When drawing from observation it applies to everything.
“Forget the name of that which you are drawing.” You’re not drawing eyes, or a car, etc, you’re drawing shapes and lines that will create the eye, or the car.
Im a newer artist who's been working on drawing for the last few years, and this video was eye-opening (pun intended). You've got a way with teaching. Thank you for the great video :]
Thanks for your kind words, they mean a lot. I wish you the best and hope your journey learning to draw isn't frustrating. Drawing can be so fun and rewarding! 😊
Spot on! Great video. Cheers.
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You got a like out of me. Clear msj, this should be teach on school of art (which I haven't seen).
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I think the cat analogy is incorrect. Cat is not one of the three or four words you use in every sentence. If you are a portrait artist, the eyes are one of the four items you draw every time, as in eyes, nose, mouth, and hair. The cat analogy would work if there were only five words.
Thanks for your comment. I chose the example of drawing a cat because it touched on the broader idea that these skills of observing negative shapes and angles apply to anything we draw. A "cat" is a "thing" in the same sense that "eye" is a "thing"- our brains have a stored visual library of these "things", these symbols that we've learned since childhood. You're right, I could have used "hair", since when we were children we learned to treat hair as a symbol as well when we drew people. But for the point I was trying to make, the idea extends beyond drawing portraits. When drawing from observation it applies to everything.
“Forget the name of that which you are drawing.” You’re not drawing eyes, or a car, etc, you’re drawing shapes and lines that will create the eye, or the car.
@@EvanDahill Exactly. Thanks for your comment
@@laurenball_illustrator if I could impart thus on my grandsons, they’d become terrific artists.
@@EvanDahill Thanks for your comment, that means a lot 😊