3.10 – Drawing Curved Shapes
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3.4 – Triangles: Row 1 Remainder
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1.3 – Getting Started
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5.7 – Progression 6
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5.6 – Progression 5
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5.5 – Progression 4
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5.4 – Progression 3
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5.3 – Progression 2
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5.2 – Progression 1
The value progression strips aren’t that much different from the value scale in the previous module – each presents a range of values between lig…
5.1 – Value Progressions
Matching individual notes of value, and judging the contrasts between them, is a hugely important skill in drawing. But it’s really just the beginni…
4.7 – Contrasts
If being able to hit value targets is the first skill we need to master in developing the light and shade in our drawings, then gauging contrasts is t…
4.6 – Drawing a Value Scale
Value 2 is the darkest value were going to attempt in this exercise, and is very close to the bottom of our available range. It makes sense, then, tha…
4.5 – On the Value Scale
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4.4 – Value and Drawing Materials
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4.3 – Quantifying Value
Musicians have long enjoyed the benefits of a notation system for music. Anyone who has ever taken music lessons remembers what notes on a staff look …
4.2 – Value Compression
One of the core ironies of realistic drawing and painting is that the thing we’re trying to do – make an image that looks like the subject – oft…
4.1 – Introduction to Value
If we use lines and shapes to convey the structure and proportion objects, we use values to convey the other half of the visual experience: the effect…
3.6 – Introduction to Irregular Polygons
Triangles aren’t the only shape we need to master. In fact, most of the shapes we’ll need to build on the page during a block-in won’t be triang…
3.1 – Introduction to Triangles
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2.4 – On Drawing Curved Lines
So far we’ve been concerned with straight lines only, but the truth is that we’ll need to be able to represent all kinds of curved lines and edges…