Starting with a Single Line： How to Draw Communicative Pictures

https://book.impress.co.jp/books/1117101074

• How to draw 絵 (Drawing)

• The first step is to be able to draw clean straight lines/curves

  • It’s a process of learning while progressing

• Even if you think you can observe the elements, you don’t seem to be able to do it at all. It felt like IB Japanese’s 文学分析 (literary analysis)

• This is exactly what I wanted~ (blu3mo)

  • A book that teaches you how to quickly draw images that capture the features without being highly realistic

  • It enables you to quickly draw pictures that capture the features of a model after observing them

• Practice Drawing Lines

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• Start by roughly capturing the shape, and as you observe more closely, it becomes easier to draw

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  • If you try to copy the details from the beginning, it becomes difficult to see the overall balance
    • So, first balance it out and then add the details

• How to draw lines

  • Make sure that the lines you imagine in your head match the lines you actually draw
    • I didn’t pay much attention to each individual line

• Remember the joy of drawing

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    • It said something good (blu3mo)
    • It’s important not to depend on others for the standard of “joy”(?)

• 棒人間 (Stick figure)

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  • The upper body and lower body are about the same length

  • Draw the hands a little above the head, leaving a small gap

    • It’s easy to end up drawing them lower (blu3mo)

  • By manipulating it well, you can freely move a person

  • I wanted to draw ソーラン節 (Soran Bushi) on the right (blu3mo)

    • It’s different, so when you compare it to the real thing, the way it bends is different in various ways
      • It seems that the perception of how each joint bends was off
      • Not just this, but if you compare it to reality and make adjustments, your drawing skills improve, right?
    • Also, I should have considered the center of gravity
    • And I didn’t even have the idea of tilting the torso in the first place

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    • It got better

  • Movement

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    • I see, there are rules for angles
      • It feels like learning based on theory (blu3mo)
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      • The left one is based on reality, and the right one is drawn according to the book
      • The one in the book is more like a manga expression, right?
        • It’s quite different, but both of them seem to be running, which is strange

• When drawing an object, consider the perspective of being easy to draw and capturing its features

  • Being easy to draw means
    • It can be expressed by combining simple elements
  • Capturing its features means
    • Transferring what is unique to it
    • For example, if it’s a lemon, it would be the pointed shape
    • In other words, increasing the Information Quantity (meaning rarity)

• Stretching brush strokes-

• It looks better with guidelines, especially for ellipses.

• Also, it’s good to draw short lines in layers.

  • Each line may have some ambiguity when drawn individually, but when connecting the next line, the best interpretation is chosen from the ambiguous interpretations, so it improves(?).

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• The one on the right was drawn first, and the one on the left was drawn later.

  • I used guidelines, and the circle looks much better.

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  • I drew it based on a photo.
  • It’s important to grasp the shape and adjust the balance first.
    • I was able to adjust the balance well this way.
  • I also drew guidelines for the circle.
  • It’s also quite important to notice when lines are parallel to each other (blu3mo).
  • And by drawing a bicycle like this carefully, you can understand its structure, making it easier to draw deformed bicycles in the future (blu3mo).

• I realized that if you draw points randomly, the corners become rounded and the drawing looks very “sloppy”.

• This is also highly recommended! https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSep9cqur/ (fuka)