The Vilppu DRAWING MANUAL BASIC FIGURE DRAWING
The Vilppu DRAWING MANUAL BASIC FIGURE DRAWING
The VILPPU BASIC FIGURE DRAWING MANUAL DRAWING 2 Spherical forms Tow that you've them.However,the design ofa “First,.you must “mapped out'"the course does not guarantee that you action of the pose,the will leam those skills automatically. have a plan of attack next step in the process is to You have to put in the time and effort or approach; define your figure in 3-D space. to do the learning.To do anything Learning to see your subject in uccessfully you must apply three second,you need the terms of simple shapes and basic elements:first,you must have a knowledge to put forms along with values is one plan ofattack or approach:second. of the basic elements in learning you need the knowledge to put that that plan into affect; to draw.I refer to this ability to olan into affect,and third,you must and third,you must see and use basic forms as have the tenacity to carry it through visual tools.These visual tools,like to completion. have the tenacity to any tool.help you to accomplish carry it through to certain tasks.Without the right tools.doing anything becomes completion.” much more difficult.This course is designed,step by step,to give you those tools and basic skills in using
The Vilppu DRAWING MANUAL BASIC FIGURE DRAWING These first lessons are the most Illustration No.1 critical and are the most deceptively simple in appear ance.Through experience,I have found them to be the most difficult for the student be- cause of this apparent simplic- ity.Everything depends on your putting the time and effort into these initial lessons.Lesson one was a good example of what seems to be simple but is something that in reality is only truly mastered after a lifetime of effort. Start by drawingaseries of Illustration No (No.1). Combining two spheres as one complete form but still having. clearly,two parts gives the form a sense oflife(See Illustration No. 2).Have your form walk,bend over.be curious.meet other forms like it,and create relationships.In short,bring it to life.Through all this,you must maintain the sense of volume. What is asense ofvolume?The use ofthe term"volume"in draw ing generally means three dimen- sional.Havinga"sense ofvolume" in a drawing is to give it this three dimensional quality.There are many different ways of creating this three dimensionality that we experience as volume ina drawing
The Vilppu DRAWING MANUAL BASIC FIGURE DRAWING Illustrations No.1 &3 demon- strate overlapping,the most basic way to create a sense of form existing in space.Illustration No.2 also uses overlapping but in this case the forms are connected and the overlapping does not com- pletely separate the parts.In Illustration No.4"A.""B."and "C"you can see how important it becomes to carefully decide which lines overlap.In Illustration4- "A."the forms go away from us,in "B."they come forward,and in C."they create atwist. Still,just making forms overlap in itself will not ensure that the drawing will exhibit this sense B of form. The most elemental skill is the as if isting no- ave a othe Drawing should be an everyday part of what you do.Look at othe artists ofthe past and see where me