Until you can learn to ignore details, you won’t learn to draw.
Light shapes create the image; dark shapes create the pattern and the design. It is light shapes that give form; the dark shapes make the pattern.
Shadow shapes must describe either structure or the form on which it lies.
Consider drawing as a means of containing tone.
Make the paper more beautiful with every stroke added. Learn to ignore details, so that you can draw details. Look for the big, basic truths.
The degree of finish is a matter of how far you continue breaking down individual planes, probing for details.
Go for freedom and looseness through your treatment of edges.
A studied treatment of edges yields the illusion of space. You cannot reduce these principles to a formula. If you look only for shapes and delineation, that’s all you’ll see. You should also look for softness, merging tones, etc. These are qualities we revere in the really good artists.
Advice by Fred Fixler-
n1kes reblogged this from ghostschool and added:
probably what my art prof.’s been saying over...it’s so freaking hard to do!!!
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