Three Rules For Creating Great Lively Drawings

Even adept artists sometimes have a hard time when creating realistic three-dimensional drawings. Of course they know the fundamental principles and create naturalistic drawings intuitively. But sometimes even the most skilled discover parts in their artwork that appear distorted and not natural.

For novices it's even much harder, they have to practice hard to move up a training curve. It is well-known that outstanding drawing abilities are the outcome of hard practicing. Instead learning the three most important rules of three-dimensional drawing will make things easier . They will be a shortcut to improving your drawing skills and help even adept draftsmen to pinpoint parts that need reworking.

So what causes a drawing look naturalistic and third-dimensional? There are three rules that add to the realistic appearance of your pictures. Each of them has to be mastered. Collectively they ensure outstanding results:

* Composition
* Perspective
* Illumination and Darknesses

Composition

Does composition actually add to the three-dimensional appearing of your images? Naturally! The three-dimensional appearance of any picture has much to do with the relation connecting the various objects within the picture. You can produce an image with objects that all follow the rules of perspective and have perfect lighting and dark parts. But a weak composition will cripple most of the three-dimensional appearance.

There's just one important composition rule: let your drawing's objects intersect! Frequently I see beginning artists avoiding to let elements in their drawings intersect , because they are afraid to mess it up.

Sure - if your picture has lots of intersecting parts it gets more complicated to draw. There are more dark parts and also perspective and dimensions of the objects must be much more exact.

That's challenging sure enough. Closely arranged elements in your drawing may relentlessly reveal all weak points. On the other side if you cope to get the perspective, lighting and shades right, a closer composition will beef up the three-dimensional appearance.

So have courage to put your drawing's elements nearer together. Let them intersect and demonstrate how good you can draw them according to the rules of three-dimensional drawings.

Perspective

Creating a drawing employing accurate perspective is the point where a bit bit math comes into play. No need to worry - no complicated formulas, just drawing a few additional lines.

When creating a picture with the rules of perspective in mind you make sure that:
* your objects have the correct dimensions and size
* your objects have the correct distortion harmonizing with the viewer's distance
* your objects are arranged properly to one another

All this is achieved by following one simple rule:

"Picture elements and parts of them get smaller the farther they are away."

This rule cannot be emphasized too much. Once you fail to apply it correctly, your drawings will look distorted and strange. So drawing some additional lines will help you to employ this rule properly.

Light and Shadow

The correct lighting and shadowing is the 3rd important principle for realistic looking three-dimensional sceneries. It is for the lights in your drawings that shades appear. And shades are essential for a truthful looking drawing - except you depict "gray rainy day" sceneries only.

To craft realistic shades there are a few facts you have to consider:

* you have to recognize where the light comes from
* this enables you to find the right size of the shade
* the right angle and direction for the shade
* and the correct shape of the shade

Unfortunately realistic dark shades aren't that comfortable to realize. But there are a few helpful techniques. Just now I am writing on a tutorial explaining these techniques step-by-step. It'll follow here soon.

This is just a first draft of my conceptions on how to draw realistic.
You find updates, a comment area and more drawing instructions on my Website.
http://drawingsecrets.com

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Professional Artist

What is the artistic lifestyle all about. The real bonus of this lifestyle is experiencing the excitement and buzz that you get from being creative and free thinking. You will find that the ability to make art every day, whenever, however, and where-ever you want, is a mind blowing experience. Creative juices will flow and all your artistic ideas can be tried out. The spill over into your everyday life will astonish you. You will be thinking for yourself about your work, and you will find new ways of thinking about every other aspect of your life. You probably already know that artists are often philosophers, poets, musicians, designers, inventors, and writers as well as being artists. Being an artist encourages these other activities.-ever you want, is a mind blowing experience. Creative juices will flow and all your artistic ideas can be tried out. The spill over into your everyday life will astonish you. You will be thinking for yourself about your work, and you will find new ways of thinking about every other aspect of your life. You probably already know that artists are often philosophers, poets, musicians, designers, inventors, and writers as well as being artists. Being an artist encourages these other activities.

Where you can do it. You can be an artist where ever you like. An artist can legitimately travel to far flung exotic places to be able to paint them. You can follow in Gaugin's footsteps and settle on a south sea island, and the tax man will allow it as a justifiable expense. Or you can set yourself away from prying eyes in your own hidey-hole studio right in the centre of town, emerging to mingle with cafe society and the company of other artists. You can choose the town, you can choose the country. The world is your oyster.

When you can do it. An artist creates art when inspiration and circumstances are right. That means that you will not be a clock slave. You will probably want to work very hard because you are having a good time and enjoying the work. But you can take time off when other interests are foremost. You are the boss. The old nine to five routine is a thing of the past. Work all night then take a week off. Be prepared to have moments of frenzied activity before an exhibition, followed by periods of rest and calm when you will be preparing for the next one.

Who you will be. Do all this and bask in a respected and admired position in society. The international status of an artist has never been higher. You can experience the limelight in whatever size bites that you wish. If you are extrovert and enjoy being the focus of attention, or if you are introverted and wish to keep yourself to yourself, either way you can build a successful career as an artist, and still expect to receive the accolades of your fellow citizens. Artists command respect where ever they are.

Why being an artist is so good. Here is another bonus that you will find as an artist. You will find that you have access to new exclusive upper circles where the role value of being an artist is understood, envied and revered. Here you will meet and mix with the wealthy, powerful, and influential social leaders, where you can benefit from patronage and established good taste. You are rightly valued because you as an artist contribute to the well being of society. Your work will be sought out and collected because it could be a good investment, and because you are seen as a trend-setter.
Author:Darren Franklin

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Guide to the Design exhibition

September is the month when Earl's Court, London, plays host to 100% Design show, the leading design exhibition event that brings together the world's leading architects and cutting edge interior and object designers. It is a world class event that showcases on numerous exhibition stands how architecture is playing its part in sustainable design and how design has taken on the green agenda and is turning necessity into innovation.

Designers in London are at the hub of a revolution that is happening in design. Architects are leading the way and naturally incorporating many of the green issues that are essential to reduce global consumption and greenhouse gases. Architecture is moving to marry innovation and design with sustainability in the use of materials and the way that those materials are both manufactured and used. Eco development is no longer for hippies but is an integral part of the new wave of architectural design. Of course not all property developers are adhering to the new world order but there is legislation in place regarding insulation and energy saving lighting. Heat loss and noise pollution are now compensated by proper built-in insulation and renewable energy is encouraged through solar panels and wind turbines.

Interior designers and product designers have been slower to follow a green agenda and product manufacturers are guilty in some instances of designing with no thought for the natural world in terms of using up resources and the future disposal of an item. Today, design and engineering are working closer together than ever before and the scope for innovation in engineering has never been better. Much of the world's design generates from the UK and Britain has a great talent base of young designers that are keen for design to be green, functional and aesthetically beautiful. British design welcomes people from all over the world to work here and to bring their own unique perceptions to great design that is exemplified in exhibition forums such as 100% Design.

Design is more than brand identity. 100% Design is an interactive exhibition that draws people to products that give pleasure that lasts and is 100% functional. Some people regard interior and object design as sometimes frivolous rather than problem solving but 100% design is an exhibition for designers that have the courage of their design convictions. Not all design can work but sometimes design such as that of a paperclip simply cannot be improved. To understand good design is to also acknowledge that bad design like bad movies is never the intention of the designer.

100% Design is an interior design & architecture exhibition that always pushes the boundaries of contemporary innovation.

Catherine writes about Exhibition stands and services and Exhibition information.

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Organic Art...painting with food !

The other day I started experimenting with alternative art materials. There are so many ways to create really original art. With a blank white piece a paper in front of me there are no limits.

I immediately went to the refrigerator. I used broccoli scrubbed into the paper, then carrots, and beet juice. This led me to the spice cabinet where cous-cous seasoning put out a powerful, and rich ochre color. Cinnamon was lovely and soft and worked well for some shadowing effects. This was a fascinating experiment in the intensity and amounts of natural dye in food and spice samples!

I then took my color search outside. To my surprise the bright red geraniums that are outside my front door, when squished and scrubbed into the paper I was working with turn an amazing dark purple. Bouganvilla blossoms also a red variety turn a very lovely... rasberry. I use some yummy tree bark to scrub along side the bold colors to soften the transition of colors. It works, as does a wierd green seed, for some very defined green lines of direction. Kentucky blue grass scrubbed into paper leaves a soft chlorophyll smudge to play with.

So, try something new with art. Go outside, collect flowers, twigs, bark, seeds, grasses, soil, anything and everything. You will be surprised at the colors you get , the amounts of color contained in items, and it will be a step back into time. I was always intriqued by the very first airbrush paintings on the cave walls at Lascaux south western France, where pigments were blown thru a reed, and scrubbed on with mats of moss. These images were made of maganese and iron oxide and are over 17,000 years old.

There are so many options when considering painting with nature, you just have to give different elements a try.
Broccoli, carrots, cinnamon, tree bark, cous-cous seasoning, red geraniums, purple bouganvilla, curry powder, and a wierd green seed, on watercolor paper.

Art should not be comfortable, it should be something of the unknown, a challenge. Artists need to reach, to explore, to inspire, and investigate..... opening new frontiers in thought.

Go out and touch something new today.

Deb Haugen is a Malibu, California artist. Tagged the "Organic Artist" because of the content of her work. After 30 years of painting "My main focus is currently my organic art series inspired by the creek bed and horse trails I walk daily. Organic art is essential, vital, and rudimentary, it is all around us" Deb Haugen's artwork is in private collections in the US, Germany, Spain and Japan. http://www.theorganicartist.com

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Find works of art

A church with a valuable and interesting works of art can be found

Art is a subject on that one quickly can also argue, because not everything that one feels as great art, is also used by other people perceived as works of art. So should it also be because of the artistic field is an area where everyone can be omitted, as they like. In the past there were very many well-known artists whose works of art today in many churches and museums, even more can be admired. They are just in a museum in a great many works of art to see, because there are many museums that deal with a specific art direction, or even with a certain performers.

There are also museums that are thematically not only to do with art have always exhibits the works of art by a particular artist whole show. But not only in a museum you can admire art, because there are also many churches in which it is the most beautiful works of art on display there. In general, it is a church for the architecture, as works of art is understood. This refers to the interior as well as the entire shell of the church. In addition, the interior works of art as a means, as the impressive altars in churches are often very artistically designed. The works of art in a church as well as from a museum in an inventory taken. This list this as proof that a particular works of art in the Museum or in the church was, if something is stolen. The inventory must be very concentrated, and above all will be carefully implemented.

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