3. Compose!
Cars, birds, flora, real and imagined creatures, planes, dresses, cartoon characters, superheroes and villains, and more—people enjoy drawing what they love. They undertake the challenge of creating realism, carefully trying to render the full nature of what they see, including mass, texture, and perhaps color.
When you study drawing from life, you will soon learn that objects and figures have to exist somewhere in pictorial space. They are parts of a larger composition. That sets up a challenging visual thinking problem: When drawing from life, which should come first—drawing forms or composing the drawing?
Let’s approach it this way: Think about something that you would like to draw. Where would it exist in actual space, out in ...
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