For the last little while i have been doing healthy and kid-friendly recipes, now it is time to vary things a little bit with some art – a study of a subject. In the past, I have done studies of one subject in the same medium. This time I did one subject, tulips, in 3 very different mediums – a photograph, a pencil drawing and a vector drawing. This just happened spontaneously and in retrospect, I believe it would be good to do this more often.
How To Do A Study of One Subject in Different Mediums
- Take pictures. Start with a close up view of your subject and take pictures. – whatever camera you have will do. Take the time to compose it and in different angles.
- Sketch. I carry a small sketch book with me and use it when there’s opportunity to do even a quick sketch using a printed photograph or straight from a phone camera. I find that sketching by hand really helps in understanding the shapes, proportion and subtle colour shifts and gradients. Do more than one if you can.
- Create a vector art without looking at your reference material (photograph or sketch). Use the reference material only after you’ve tried digital drawing from memory. You’ll be amazed how much you can remember of the subject.
- Fine tune. Now you can refers to the reference materials and make changes to your vector art.
- Compare all your art work, just as I did here side by side.
Try it! You’ll get to understand more about your choice subject and as I found it, the approach I took in creating each art improved.
marilou strait 