Yesterday I finished the latest draft of my follow-up to Wonder Mom and Party Girl and sent the manuscript off to my publisher. To celebrate, I painted the following:
I’ve been doing a lot of sketching lately — trying to figure out perspective and how to draw hands. The hands are coming along okay. Perspective is another matter altogether. If I get the time, I hope to post some of my sketches in the near future. In the mean time, you can visit my wife’s blog to see a sketch I did of our kitchen.
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Read Thomas Eakins’ writing on perspective. He’s probably the greatest American draughtsman of the 19th Century.
The gist of it: imagine you’re looking at a subject through a window frame. Move slightly. This will show you how the perspective works.
It’s a little more complicated than that, but then again -not really.
Thanks, Rich! I’ll have to check that out.