Monday, August 29, 2016

How to draw female body, body proportions

    First of, here is quite interesting collection of drawings that might help you to get the head proportions: how to draw a face
    And here are just bunch of a pictures that show the measurement ratios of a female figure:









    I like the last one, because its actually first time I found a sketch of female figure proportions in different positions.

    Proportion tutorial on how to draw hands by Joshua Nava is a professional tutorial that reveals all the possible ways of understanding angles and proportion of hands, best about this hand drawing tutorial is that it also shows hands in motion, so they don't look stiff.
  And for the end a few sketches of feet :)












  

  





Sunday, August 28, 2016

Woman hair speed drawing, how to draw realistic hair

    These speed drawing videos are showing how to draw realistic hair with pencils, in both b&w and in color.
    Easy way to draw black-and-white hair:





    And here are more professional tutorial on drawing hair:



This video is a great and rare tutorial on how to draw light hair on the dark background:


And the last, but not the least, how to draw the blonde hair with color pencils:





Hair, how to draw! Tutorials by DebbyArts

Here are few video tutorials  by DebbyArts that helped me a lot in beginning to understand how to properly draw and shade the hair:









Hope you'll find it helpful too :)





Kae Yoshino and how to draw gems (turorial)

    Never really draw any gems, so when the time came - had no other ways but google a tutorial. And from all varieties I found a few drawings that catch my eye.




    A Japanese certified Zentangle artist and teacher Kae Yoshino, has few pretty simple and great tutorials on how to draw gems on her blog and here they are.


First of, she suggests to use watercolor pencils to create a base colors.



Then blend those colors with a wet brush. 



Then add more depth to the colors by coloring it more, but with regular pencils.


And now, for the last touch you ad shadowing on the edges, highlight your gems and voila!




Another variation of coloring suggests to draw a dark base before coloring, to create more dimensional view.



Color the base until desirable shades are acquired and then shade the middle with black pencil again, to create more depth to the gem



And for the last touch highlight the gems.



Some of Kae Yoshino tutorials are in English ,but unfortunately most of  her blog is only in Japanese language. If you wanna see more of her works feel free to visit the board with her works I collected on Pinterest.



    Here are the original tutorials links: 

1st tutorial
2nd tutorial
3rd tutorial



    Thanks to Kae Yoshino blog I also learned what is "Zentangle". It is a relaxation form of drawing structured patterns that suppose to carry out wide variety of therapeutic tasks, suck as stress reduction, relaxation, concentration and so on. Was found by Rick Roberts and Mary Thomas and if you want to know more, just visit their official website.