by Henk ter Heide on Wednesday September 26, 2007
If I can’t trace the picture in my mind I should try to draw something that looks like it.
For the last few months I’ve been trying to draw objects in the way I see them in my mind. Photographic memory quality.
But that doesn’t seem to work. Probably because I don’t have the skills.
So I’ve decided to apprauch the problem from the other side. I should first learn to draw something that at least looks like a tree (and other objects). Maybe I can reach a stage where I can at least draw something that vaguely looks like the picture in my mind.
Tree abstract
In my mind this doesn’t look like a tree. Or actually it does look like a tree but not like a photograph of a tree.
by Henk ter Heide on Wednesday July 18, 2007
After reading about the 4th of July a few weeks ago I thought that it would be nice if there was some easy method to draw fireworks.
After thinking about it for a while I came up with a few methods. One very easy method use crayons.
When you’re finished with this drawing you’ll end up with something looking like this:
Fireworks
Paper
Using the kind of paper you use to make business card, you start out with drawing a template to help you find important features of your drawing:
Fireworks template
Template
It doesn’t matter if you make any mistakes while drawing this template because all the lines will be covered.
The crossing lines at 1, 2 and 3 will become the center of spreading fireworks.
Between line 4 and 5 I’ll color some brown crayon to draw the rooftops.
Line 6 shows were I’ll color some green that will become plants when the drawing is finished.
After drawing your template you use the crayon to color the template:
(My crayon box came with only five colors but you can use as many colors as you like.)
Firework 1th color layer
The pencil lines will help you decide where the different colors must come.
The cover up
Now you cover the whole drawing with black crayon. Take care that the outer edge stays visible.
Fireworks 2th color layer
Getting artsy
As you can see all the lines and colors are completely covered.
With the help of the lines in the edge you still know where the center of the fireworks are and where the rooftops and plants will have to go.
My crayon box came with a scraper. But if you’ve lost it you can also use an old teespoon to scrape the black crayon off.
Fireworks almost there
There you are
This would be a nice picture if it wasn’t for the lines at the edge.
To finish the drawing I covered the edges with strips of red paper and ended up with this:
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