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Practical Drawing Series:
Lines (Part 3)

Ornament

Draw two boxes near to each other. Divide each of them into 4 parts: draw box diagonals. Draw ornament taking random curved and straight element widths.

Pencil Stroking

Draw a few boxes with defined side proportions: 2:1, 1.5:1, 3:4 and so on and cover them with uniform bright strokes, with different brightness strokes and with gradiental strokes.

When doing these exercises, don't smear your strokes using your fingertips or anything else. You should train your hand so it strokes with just the required pressure.

Meander

Draw a picture similar to one shown below. To achieve that, learn how it's done: determine its structure. Stroke inner parts.

Leaf

Take any leaf, and looking at it take right proportions (whole leaf length to its width and also detail proportions to its size) and sketch those.

To draw a leaf correctly first make clear for yourself, what does it remind you of?

There are leaves that are close to ellipse, circle and triangle shapes. In our case it reminds me of a 5-ended polygon. First thing to sketch here is proportions of that polygon according to the middle line. Once it's done you can start more precise drawing. You should never start from contour, because in that case it's very complex to get the right proportions of the picture and you will have to redraw it endlessly.

In the next Practical Drawing lesson we will overview linear perspectives, shadows and tones.

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