You Can Draw in 30 Days: The Fun, Easy Way to Learn to Draw in One Month or Less (22 page)

BOOK: You Can Draw in 30 Days: The Fun, Easy Way to Learn to Draw in One Month or Less
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5m. Now, let’s apply all this distortion of foreshortened circles to a curling flag. This exercise will be directly transferred to the rose. Draw another flagpole.
5n. Draw the two guide dots, and draw the threequarter foreshortened circle curling toward you.
5o. Begin spiraling the foreshortened circle inward.
5p. Complete the foreshortened circle spiral. Stretch out the ends, and always curve the middle in close. We will also be discussing this when we draw water ripples in a later lesson.
5q. Draw the thickness of the vertical sides of the flag.
5r. Curve the bottom of the near edge of the flag a bit more than the curve you have drawn on the top edge above.
5s. Push that back line up, and curve it away from your eye.
5t. Draw the all-important peeking lines from each of the inside edges. This is definitely the BAM moment of this drawing, the one instantly defining moment when a drawing suddenly pops into the third dimension.
5u. Draw in some very dark nook and cranny shadows. Generally, the more little cracks, crevices, nooks, and crannies that you can pour some shadow into, the more depth you create in your drawing. Complete the blended shading.
I know that was quite a bit of a warm-up exercise for this one drawing lesson. Good job on your patient cooperation in drawing the bowl and the three separate flags. We will now use the techniques you just learned to draw a rose.
 
 
 
6. Draw a foreshortened bowl, and add a stem.
7. Draw a guide dot in the middle of the rose bowl (get the pun?).
8. Begin to spiral out the rose petal with three-quarters of a foreshortened circle.
9. Keep spiraling, and keep these spiraled foreshortened circles squished. It’s the distorted shape that will form the three-dimensional rosebud.
10. Complete the spiral at the center of the petal. Erase the extra line.

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