From the course: Painting Foundations: Acrylic
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Final project: First stages
From the course: Painting Foundations: Acrylic
Final project: First stages
- [Voiceover] When you're drawing out the cup for this painting, it's best if you can print out your image the exact same size as the canvas you're working on. This way, when you're painting and when you're drawing, you're working on a one-to-one scale. It makes it a lot easier when you're judging your painting, and your drawing, so you can flick your eyes between the two really easily. The things that I'm lookin' out for is I'm just lookin' out for the basic block shapes within the actual composition. I'm also looking out for these negative spaces, which are these spaces here, which are just in between the objects. Often, when you concentrate on these spaces in between the objects, it'll make it easier for you to actually draw a more realistic drawing of the flowers. Because we're workin' in a frame, you can start to judge your eye between, say, the top of the flower, and the top of the frame, It makes it a lot easier for you to judge this space, and this space here from the edge of…
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