Summary
Review
This chapter covers basic drawing techniques. It briefly outlines techniques
designed to help you advance in figure drawing. The different types of
contour drawing, gesture drawing, and composite drawings, when practiced
regularly, will develop your perceptual skills required to draw realistic
images.
Comments
Some believe the ability to draw well is a developed skill, others believe it is
a gift or inborn talent. Even with advent of computer-generated graphics, the
ability to draw well remains an invaluable skill. Drawing well is a talent
computers can not emulate. Computers depend on the input of the system
operator for compositional formulas, imagination, and creativity. The
knowledge of composition, and the foresight to envision the end product are
yours. Practice and develop your drawing ability. You will simultaneously
develop compositional savvy and spark previously unrealized imaginative and
creative resources.
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