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Get BOOK. Drawing for Beginners. Art for Kids: Drawing. Contains hands-on activities to teach basic elements including shading techniques and creating perspective. Fear No Evil by James Patterson. Mercy by David Baldacci. From This Moment by Melody Grace. The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly. You'll get secret tips on dealing with the hardest parts of each drawing with super-fun instructions full of personality and encouragement.

There's something for everyone from first-time doodlers to drawing dynamos! Originally titled Dare to Draw in 3d: Monsters Mania. The author brings his unique sense of humor, imagination, recognizable quirky style, and original drawings to a title that shows how to draw funny 3-D animals, bugs, and fantastical beasts. Highlights Mark Kistler's Imagination Station, a public television show that teaches children how to draw in 3-D.

Provides information on summer drawing art camps and the television series. Offers galleries of images and lessons on how to draw 3-D images. Provides a series of lesson on foreshortening, surface, shading, shadow, density, contour, overlapping, and size, and suggests that daily practice is important for developing one's artistic skills. Demonstrates how to draw funny 3-D imaginary creatures and backgrounds, including Fur-Blob, Lasagna Larry, and Mummy Man, and features both simple and more complex drawings.

Learn to draw in 3-D with public television's favorite drawing teacher. You'll get the inside scoop on drawing the hard parts and inventing your own funny or ferocious cartoon critters.

Collect all four ooks in the Draw! Take a minute creativity break and be amazed at what you accomplish! Learn to draw 25 different everyday objects--each completed in just half an hour--with step-by-step illustrations and friendly, personality-filled instructions for each lesson. Inside you'll find: Fun "art hacks": Drawing shortcuts such as tracing handy objects make you more productive and efficient in your drawing.

Oops, wait, wrong book. I started channeling Marvel Comics for a moment. Complete the third row with the end sphere smaller, higher, and behind. Are you beginning to notice a recurring mantra here? Much of learning how to draw in 3-D is in repetition and practice. I trust you are finding this repetition of drawing spheres to be rewarding, fun, and relax- ing. Draw the fourth and fifth row of spheres. Pushing each row deeper into your picture with size, placement, and overlapping.

Go ahead, go crazy, go wild—draw rows six and seven really receding into the depths of your sketch page. Size really kicks in on these distant rows. You can defi- nitely see the size difference between the front sphere and the back row. Even though the spheres are all the same size in our imagination, we have created the successful illusion that they are receding far away into the sunset.

I was shooting for twenty rows of spheres, really trying to impress you. However, I lost sight of the spheres at row nine. What a great visual treat. You can see how powerful these concepts are: Size, placement, and overlapping cre- ate effective depth all on their own.

Finally, we get to determine the position of our light source. For consistency we will keep the light positioned in the top right. You can mess around with this light position on your own. Try experimenting with this mob of spheres with the light source positioned directly above or over in the top left.

If you want to try something really challenging, position the light source from within the sphere mob, making one of the middle orbs glowing hot bright. We will get into moving the light source posi- tion around in later lessons. Go ahead and toss some cast shadows off to the left, on the ground, opposite your light source position. My favorite step has arrived, the nook and cranny phase. Push hard on your pen- cil, and darken the nooks and crannies.

Wham—nook and cranny shadows work their wonderful magic once again. Continue your shading process with a first pass over all the objects, scribbling the shading lightly over all opposite edges away from the light source. Make several more scribble shading passes. With each consecutive pass, darken the edges farthest away from your light source while scribbling lighter and fainter as you move toward the light source.

Blend the shading with your finger. Carefully smudge the dark shaded areas up toward the hot spots, lighter and lighter as you go. Erase the excess pencil lines to clean up if you want to. Dab the hot spots with your eraser, and watch what happens. Pretty cool, huh? The spots you dab with your eraser will create a very distinct, easily identified hot spot. All this fun and we are only finishing Lesson 3 and you are still with me! Draw objects smaller to make them recede.

Draw objects in front of other objects to punch them out in 3-D. Draw objects higher in the picture to make them look farther away. Draw objects lower in the picture to make them look closer. Shade objects opposite the light source. Blend the shading on round objects from dark to light. Lesson 3: Bonus Challenge Take a look at this drawing. I broke just about every lesson rule so far! The largest sphere is the far- thest away. The smallest sphere is the closest. This is madness!

Absolutely not. I created this drawing specifically to illus- trate how some of the drawing laws hold much more visual illusion power than others. Well, poor Pickled Gnat Brain gets totally destroyed, wiped out, stomped, crushed.

Correlation here: Each of the drawing laws has varying power over other drawing laws. If you draw a smaller object in front of any other object, even a Jupiter-size planet, overlapping will prove to be all pow- erful and will prevail in appearing to be the closest. Some drawing laws have more visual illusion power than others, depending on how you apply them. Look at the preceding drawing. Even though the farthest, deepest sphere is the largest, the smaller spheres overlap it, thus trumping the visual power of size.

Over- lapping is always more powerful than size. Look at the drawing again. See the nearest sphere is drawn the smallest. Typi- cally this would mean it would appear the farthest away. However, because it is isolated and placed lowest on the paper, it appears closest. Simply stated, placement trumped both size and overlapping. I do not intend for you to commit these visual power variations to memory.

These fun freaky wrinkles in the rules will naturally absorb into your skill bank as you practice. Draw guide lines shooting off to the right and left.

We will be using guide lines a lot in upcoming lessons. Draw these guide lines at just a slight angle upward, not too steep. Draw the tiny one peeking out like I did below. Notice how I made use of the guide lines to position the spheres. Continue to use your guide lines as a reference, and draw a few more spheres, varying the sizes. Notice how the guide lines help you place the spheres higher up in proper position placement.

Throw some Big Mama spheres in there. Overlapping is the power principle here; even though some of the spheres are very small, they still overpower the larger spheres to appear closer. Overlapping is trumping the power of size!

Because this drawing is all about enjoying yourself, go ahead and stack a few spheres on top. Some of the spheres are breaking from the pack, seeking a less crowded, less con- gested life. Brave solitary spheres are establishing the first rural outposts. Looks cool, eh? Go ahead and draw a few more planets in orbit above the sphere pile. Go ahead and draw a row of thirty-seven planets in the sky overlapping down to the horizon.

Identify the position of your light source, and begin adding cast shadows oppo- site your light position. You are now forewarned! This nook and cranny step will take some thinking. Keep darting your eye between your light position and the objects you are shading.

Put some pressure on your pencil, and get a really nice dark shadow into all the nooks and crannies. Take your time; this is a fun step in the lesson, so enjoy yourself! On the first shading pass, let your pencil fly over the spheres, just lightly shading the large areas opposite the light source. Make several more shading passes over all the spheres. Really work the dark edges, the dark nook and crannies, and the dark spaces on the ground between the spheres and the cast shadow.

Work the blending slowly up toward the light. Constantly dart your eyes back to confirm the position of your light source. Take your time, work this well, and enjoy the exhilarating punch-out effect you are creating. You see? Drawing in 3-D is easy with me! Blend your shading as smooth as glass.

Use controlled, careful pressure to smudge and smear the shading, blending it lighter and lighter from the darkest dark edges to the lightest brightest hot spot on each sphere.

Work this for a while. You could scratch a ton of hair onto each sphere, and suddenly you would have a very strange look- ing alien family of furry blobs. Texture can add a lot of identifying character to your drawing.

More on this great principle in later lessons. Adding extras to your drawing adds another layer to your learning. I can and will teach you the specific skills you need to create technically accurate three-dimensional drawings. However, the real learning, the real fun, the true enjoyment of drawing come from you internalizing the skills and externalizing your creative imagination. The things you will see, the sounds you will hear, the things you will be!

Elmo is a little red furry dude of wisdom. I can teach you how to draw, easy, no problem. The fun part is how you launch from this starting point by practicing, practicing, practicing.

Holes and windows are great practice exercises for learning how to draw thickness correctly. Here is an easy way to remem- ber where to draw the thickness on windows, doors, holes, cracks, and openings: If the window is on the right, the thickness is on the right. If the window is on the left, the thickness is on the left. If the window is on the top, the thickness is on the top. You can see I had some fun with this lesson. I started going crazy and added win- dows with boulders launching from them.

I was about to draw a bunch of doors, skateboard ramps, and hamster travel tubes between the spheres. I pulled my pencil back at the last second, not wanting to overload you with too many ideas, too fast. Then again, why not? Go for it! You can begin to see unique drawing styles beginning to emerge. Each student will have his or her own unique approach to the lessons. The cube is so versatile that you will be using it to draw boxes, houses, buildings, bridges, air- planes, vehicles, flowers, fish.

Yes, a cube will even help you draw a fine-finned fish in 3-D. Along with helping you draw faces, flowers, and, well, just about anything you can think of or see in the world around you. Starting on a fresh new page in your sketchbook, write the lesson number and title, date, time, and your location.

Then draw two dots across from each other. Place your finger between the dots using the opposite hand you are drawing with. Then draw Feel free to write journal entries, a dot above your finger as shown. The more you personalize your sketchbook, the more you will value it, and the more you will use it. Look at my sketchbook pages: I write journal entries, self-reminder notes, grocery lists, to-do items, airline times, and all kinds of nondrawing stuff.

My sketchbook is the first place I look when I need to remember some- thing I was supposed to do. Look at the dots you have drawn. Try to keep these two new dots really close together.

Shoot the first line across. Draw the next line. Add the third line. Complete the foreshortened square. This is a very important shape to practice.

Go ahead and draw this foreshortened square a few more times. We are aiming for a foreshortened square. For example, pull a coin out of your pocket. Look at the coin straight on. It is a flat circle, a 2-D circle that has length and width two dimensions but lacks depth.

The surface is at an equal distance from your eye. Now, tilt the coin slightly. The shape has changed to a foreshortened circle, a circle that has depth. The coin now has all three dimensions: length, width, and depth. By tilting the coin slightly, you have shifted one edge farther away from your eye; you have foreshort- ened the shape. You have distorted the shape. Drawing in 3-D is distorting shapes to trick the eye into seeing drawn objects near and far in your picture.

Now, back to my warning about drawing the two middle dots too far apart. If your dots are too far apart, your foreshortened square will look like this. If your foreshortened square looks like the open square I just mentioned, redraw it a few more times, placing the middle dots closer together, until your shape looks like this.

Okay, enough about foreshortening for now. Keep this concept in mind; it is so important that just about every lesson in this book will begin with it. Draw the sides of the cube with two vertical lines. If your vertical lines match up with the sides of the page, your drawing will not tilt. Using the two side lines you have just drawn as reference lines, draw the middle line a bit longer and lower.

Using lines you have already drawn to establish angles and positions for your next lines is a crucial technique in creating a 3-D picture. Using the top right edge of the top foreshortened square as a reference line, draw the bottom right side of the cube. I prefer a picture that has a lot of extra lines and scribbles that look 3-D, rather than a picture that has superclean precise lines yet looks wobbly and tilted. Now draw the bottom left side of the cube by referring to the angle of the line above it.

Reference lines! Now on to the fun part, the shading. Establish the position of your imaginary light source. Check this out. By extending the bottom right line out, I have a good reference line to match up each drawn line of the cast shadow. Looks good, right? Looks like the cube is actually sitting on the ground? Complete your first 3-D cube by shading the surface opposite your light position. Notice that I am not blending the shading at all.

I blend the shading only on curved surfaces. We are going to draw three cubes in a group. Start the first one with your two guide dots. Use your index finger to position the middle guide dots. This is a terrific habit to establish now, early in your draw- ing skill development, so that by the end of Lesson 30 using them will be second nature to you.

Connect the foreshortened square. This is a great shape to practice in your sketchbook if you have only a minute or so to doodle. Say you are in line at the bank drive-through with four cars ahead of you. You throw your car into park, whip out your sketchbook, and dash out a bunch of foreshortened squares.

Draw the vertical sides and the middle line of the cube. The middle line is always drawn longer and lower to make it look closer. Use the side of your sketch page as your reference line. Complete the cube using the top lines as reference lines.

Go ahead and draw three cubes like I have drawn. Draw guide dots in the middle of each side of the top foreshortened squares. Shoot a vertical line down from the near left guide dot; then draw it across the top to the other guide dot. Repeat this on the other side. Look at how you have forced the string to flatten across the top. The guide dots helped you draw the string inside of a foreshortened boundary. Guide dots are extremely helpful in lining angles up like this.

To draw string wrapping around the sides of the package, use guide dots once again to position the angles. Draw guide dots halfway down each vertical edge. Draw the string by connecting the guide dots, using the line above as your reference line. With this basic string wrap, you can finish all three cubes into a package, a cube game, and a gift wrapped in thick ribbon. Go ahead and have some fun: Try drawing a group of five cube games each overlap- ping the other, like you did with the five spheres!

Photo by Jonathan Little Sit down and position yourself so that you can see the foreshortened top of the box, similar to the fore- shortened shapes you have just drawn in this lesson. Now, draw the box sitting in front of you. Just remember what you learned in this lesson, and let this knowledge of foreshortened squares help your hand draw what your eyes are seeing. Look, really look, at the foreshortened angles, the shading, and the cast shadow.

Look at how the lettering on the box follows the foreshortened angles at the top and bottom of the box. The more you draw, the more you will really begin to see the fascinating details in the real world around you. Go ahead and lightly sketch in the cube.