Lesson 3: Creating Depth
Drawing Exercises.
A Drawing Project.
- Do some research on the Internet, and find images of castles.
- Read information about the castles, and explore any aspects that interest you. Medieval Castles is a good place to begin.
- Then design and create a 3-D drawing of your own castle, using geometric solids.
- You should have at least one each of the four solids prism, pyramid, cylinder, cone.
This is agreat exercise because you can construct a whole world easily from your imagination.
- You can do the final drawing with whatever textures you decide to devise.
- Later when you are comfortable and having fun you can people the castle with whatever creatures and entities - you like.
- But in the meantime use the exercise to create a space to practice perspective, guidelines, shading and tone.
- The exercise can be as simple as you like it or as complex.
- You can work out each element one at a time and then later construct the whole scene.
