How to make drawings from your imagination
It means that you want to get to the place where you can express your own style and come up with your own creatives. Since I have been working on the section of character design, I looked upon Carlolin’s tutorial video, and it has inspired me a lot, so I would like to summarize some notes within this blog.
Carolin indicates that “by thinking of your imagination as a library and fully stocking this library with exciting shapes, forms with textures, then find your way around that library and be able to read any of these books”, which is leading to…
How to create forms and practice them
Drawing stuff from imagination, definitely, there will be a transition from merely copying something, to truly inventing something. Starting from practice by deconstructing some simple forms, and find their:
- Centerlines. This is the very important and very first step
- Cross-contours. This step will helip you to quickly get a form into three-dimentional and solid.
- Plane changes. Starting by noticing where is your eye-level on your paper pad, generally when you draw two leg in nature, like arms or legs, you need to understand how cylinders behave in perspectives, and practcie to draw cylinder and ellipese accurately.
How to understand boxes in perspectives (improve your imaginative drawings)
PS: The boxes here, it does not mean that they only can apply to houses, cars, and mechanical inanimate objects.
A simple introduction to 1 and 2 point perspectives.
One-point: the plane you are facing looks parallel to the edge of the paper pad, so both the horizontals and the verticals are parallel with your paper pad with your imaginary frame.
Two-point: perspective with two vanishing points on the horizontal line or eye level, and only verticals are parallel to my frame.
When drawing things in perspective, you have to be aware of your eye level
I have found these tips she said are super useful; the example of how Carolin drew the deer in 1 PT and the pig in 2PT, then she used the same theory to develop another view side of the pig. She has taught about using the box to the alignment of joints and determining the body to leg ratio. and the final tips, “there is no hundred percent right answer for where to put the box edges, as same as the perspective drawings, just make the best guess, and to let everything looks make sense is the top priority : )