Animal Drawing for Beginners: Create Lively and Accurate Animal Drawings

Overview

“In this lesson, we will learn to light our animal drawings. Without lighting, we would be unable to see, so it is critical to understand how to capture it on the page using light's opposite shade. Understanding how to identify a light source is essential to shading a group of deer uniformly and helps bring depth, form, and drama to an image. ”

In this video lesson Tim Pond addresses the topic: Chiaroscuro Sketching, which is part of the Domestika online course: Animal Drawing for Beginners: Create Lively and Accurate Animal Drawings. Learn how to create lively and anatomically correct animal drawings on study sheets.

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson, we're going to be looking at chiaroscuro and lighting. without lighting, we wouldn't be able to see. So it's critical to understand how we can capture it on the paper. Noticeable or subtle lighting helps us bring depth and form to an image. With light and its opposite, Shade. Objects in museums are often lit in such a way to emphasise their 3D volume, and give the piece drama to engage the visitor. Such is the case when we're creating a drawing. Lighting can also unify ensuring that all the elements are imbibed with the same light source and brightness. such as an early morn...”

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Course summary for: Animal Drawing for Beginners: Create Lively and Accurate Animal Drawings

• Level: Beginner
• 25 students
• 4 units
• 14 lessons ()
• 37 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Drawing, Naturalistic Illustration, Pencil Drawing, Sketching