The Art Of Drawing

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Every form of art has its own beauty. While carrying the special beauty, every art requires certain basic principles to be observed while doing the art work. So the art of drawing has also a set of fundamental principles like making the shapes of an object and doing the light effect of the intensity of light falling on an object. Art is like "love" hard to explain but you can feel it when it exists in a drawing or in other artistic objects. Drawing is the basis of artistic expression, drawing is defined as the art of representing objects or forms by lines, shading, and other means making a picture in lines.

Ability to draw something in front of you like portrait, figure or landscape is a great pleasure, to start a drawing all you need to do is prepare some paper and a pencil then begin reproducing something in front of you whether it is a portrait, figure or landscape. Drawing is usually carried out with  a pencil or pen, charcoal, pastel or other pointed drawing instruments.

Below is drawing of Balinese dancer done with pencil and pastel for the background .

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Portrait Drawing In Black and White

Portrait drawing is one of the great challenges for artist, as capturing the likeness by means of line and value is not a simple matter, it requires practice and knowledge of drawing techniques. The construction of a portrait drawing requires times and thought with regard to the forms of the face of a model or from the photo, there is more than one methods of portrait drawing.

It is through a constant process of changes of line, value shading and distribution of light and dark value that form and likeness are achieved. I used HB, 2B and 4 B pencils to draw the black and white portrait from photograph.

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Pop-Art Portrait Drawing

In general pop-art refer to art work that use the technique of commercial art and popular illustration, in pop-art portrait drawing work after making up the sketch and outlined the drawing of the face or figure in the portrait or picture then draw with felt tip pen, coloured pencil and gouache the gradation and shape of the flesh with the dynamic value and tone of colour pigment so that it will give artistic drawing regarded as pop-art portrait drawing.

The following is photograph of Princess Diana when she was young, which I want to make the pop art portrait drawing accordingly. First make up a simplified drawing with pencil and after making the sketch and outlines then replace the gradation and shape of the flesh with the value and tone of colour pigment by using felt tip pen, gouache and coloured pencils as appropriate, giving the final pop-art portrait drawing as follows:

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Thank you for reading this article, reader interested in my drawing may find more drawings by visiting my blog "Art Of Drawing" at http://popart-drawing.blogspot.com/
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