Free You Can Draw in 30 Days: The Fun, Easy Way to Learn to Draw in One Month or Less by Mark Kistler Page A
Authors: Mark Kistler
favorite lessons into this book, and you get to learn how to draw more intricate houses.
1. Redraw Lesson 12’s simple house up to this step here.
2. Using your direction SW line as the reference angle, draw the ground line for the left section of the house.
3. Keep your eyes checking the reference lines in direction SW. Now, dash out the next line in direction SW to form the top of the wall.
4. Draw the vertical line for the near corner of the house, and draw the bottom left side with a line in direction NW.
5. That line you have just drawn is now your reference angle line in direction NW. Use this to draw the top of the wall.
6. Draw the far left vertical wall. Draw a guide dot in the middle of the bottom of the wall.
7. Draw the vertical guide line up from your guide dot to position the peak of the roof.
8. Draw the peak of the roof, making sure the near edge is noticeably larger than the back edge. Complete the roof with a line in direction NE. Erase your extra lines.
9. Using the lines you have already drawn as reference direction lines NW and NE, lightly draw in guide lines for the shingles. Add the door, windows, and garage. Once again, make sure that each of these detail elements lines up with the direction lines NW, NE, SW, and SE.
10. Complete your brand-new house! How exciting, but we’ve got to hustle here—the moving truck is arriving shortly, and we still need to install the new carpeting. Draw in the shading, shadows, and very dark undershadows under the eaves. The sidewalk and driveway are drawn by strictly following your direction guide lines! Look at how much faith I have in you! This is a very difficult element, and I’ve thrown you out there on your own with no safety guide lines! You are well on your way to drawing houses with only a few guide lines. You are way out on an independent limb here, so you might as well sketch in a few trees and shrubs, and (why not?) let’s recycle our good ole mailbox from Lesson 12.
Lesson 13: Bonus Challenge
Before you try to draw this on your own, which I know you will successfully do in short order, I want you to trace this building three times. “What!” you exclaim in shock and horror. “Trace? But that’s cheating!” No, no, no, I do not agree. For thirty years I have gotten flack for always encouraging my students to trace pictures. I encourage them to trace pictures from superhero comic books, Sunday comics, magazine photos of faces, hands, feet, horses, trees, and flowers. Tracing is a wonderful way to really understand how so many lines, angles, curves, and shapes fit together to form an image. Think of any of the great artists, painters, or sculptors of the Renaissance—Rafael, Leonardo, Michelangelo—they all traced pictures to help them learn how to draw. I have discussed this age-old art education question with my colleagues at Disney, Pixar, and DreamWorks PDI. Each one of them unhesitatingly responded that tracing the drawings of master illustrators helped them truly learn how to draw during their high school and art college years.
Student examples
Look at a few student drawings, and compare their different unique style with yours. You each followed the same lesson but had slightly different results. Each of you is in the process of defining your own unique style and your own unique way of interpreting these lessons and the visual world around you.
LESSON 14
THE LILY
T oday, as a reward to yourself for doing such a wonderful job of drawing difficult houses, enjoy drawing these flowing graceful lilies. This lesson will highlight a simple yet important line: the S curve. After you finish this lesson, I want you to take a walk around your home (or wherever you happen to be). I want you to carry your sketchbook and write down/sketch six objects that have S curves in them (tree trunks, window drapes, flower stems, a baby’s ear, a cat’s tail). You will be surprised how easy they are to spot once you open your
1. Redraw Lesson 12’s simple house up to this step here.
2. Using your direction SW line as the reference angle, draw the ground line for the left section of the house.
3. Keep your eyes checking the reference lines in direction SW. Now, dash out the next line in direction SW to form the top of the wall.
4. Draw the vertical line for the near corner of the house, and draw the bottom left side with a line in direction NW.
5. That line you have just drawn is now your reference angle line in direction NW. Use this to draw the top of the wall.
6. Draw the far left vertical wall. Draw a guide dot in the middle of the bottom of the wall.
7. Draw the vertical guide line up from your guide dot to position the peak of the roof.
8. Draw the peak of the roof, making sure the near edge is noticeably larger than the back edge. Complete the roof with a line in direction NE. Erase your extra lines.
9. Using the lines you have already drawn as reference direction lines NW and NE, lightly draw in guide lines for the shingles. Add the door, windows, and garage. Once again, make sure that each of these detail elements lines up with the direction lines NW, NE, SW, and SE.
10. Complete your brand-new house! How exciting, but we’ve got to hustle here—the moving truck is arriving shortly, and we still need to install the new carpeting. Draw in the shading, shadows, and very dark undershadows under the eaves. The sidewalk and driveway are drawn by strictly following your direction guide lines! Look at how much faith I have in you! This is a very difficult element, and I’ve thrown you out there on your own with no safety guide lines! You are well on your way to drawing houses with only a few guide lines. You are way out on an independent limb here, so you might as well sketch in a few trees and shrubs, and (why not?) let’s recycle our good ole mailbox from Lesson 12.
Lesson 13: Bonus Challenge
Before you try to draw this on your own, which I know you will successfully do in short order, I want you to trace this building three times. “What!” you exclaim in shock and horror. “Trace? But that’s cheating!” No, no, no, I do not agree. For thirty years I have gotten flack for always encouraging my students to trace pictures. I encourage them to trace pictures from superhero comic books, Sunday comics, magazine photos of faces, hands, feet, horses, trees, and flowers. Tracing is a wonderful way to really understand how so many lines, angles, curves, and shapes fit together to form an image. Think of any of the great artists, painters, or sculptors of the Renaissance—Rafael, Leonardo, Michelangelo—they all traced pictures to help them learn how to draw. I have discussed this age-old art education question with my colleagues at Disney, Pixar, and DreamWorks PDI. Each one of them unhesitatingly responded that tracing the drawings of master illustrators helped them truly learn how to draw during their high school and art college years.
Student examples
Look at a few student drawings, and compare their different unique style with yours. You each followed the same lesson but had slightly different results. Each of you is in the process of defining your own unique style and your own unique way of interpreting these lessons and the visual world around you.
LESSON 14
THE LILY
T oday, as a reward to yourself for doing such a wonderful job of drawing difficult houses, enjoy drawing these flowing graceful lilies. This lesson will highlight a simple yet important line: the S curve. After you finish this lesson, I want you to take a walk around your home (or wherever you happen to be). I want you to carry your sketchbook and write down/sketch six objects that have S curves in them (tree trunks, window drapes, flower stems, a baby’s ear, a cat’s tail). You will be surprised how easy they are to spot once you open your
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