Basic 101: Class 5
Drawing Spherical Objects
Balls, Balls, Balls, Balls and more Balls. We all remember “The Cain Mutiny” with Humphrey Bogart insanely scrambling those steel balls around in his hand. Insane.
Balls are spheres. Simple enough. Balls are spheres and spheres have 3 dimensionality and depth (see figure 1). Going back for a second to the class on the cylinder we remember that to construct and object using a cylinder we first look for the geometric shape then sketch it and finally add the detail that make the cylinder turn into “the object”. Simple enough.
It is the same with spheres. Spheres can be Bogey’s steel balls or they can be marbles or basketballs or the planet Mars—HEY! How about your head!--all are spheres. Let’s look at the incredible edible egg for a simple demonstration:
Step 1--Draw your circle—be sure to indicate depth
Step 2--Add detail. In this case, draw and extension from the existing sphere to make the egg
Again, very simple. Let’s do a nut:
Step 1--Draw the sphere and indicate depth
Step 2---Draw the line that divides the nut into two halves
Step 3--Add the “tail” to the nut
So the idea is to always draw the sphere first.
Let’s do a cup of coffee
Step 1—draw the ENTIRE sphere—indicate the depth of the sphere
Step 2—draw and ellipse through the center of the sphere
Step 3—Add detail (the handle and the base of the cup (keep in mind that the base of the cup is also an ellipse.
Keep in mind that a sphere IS NOT A FLAT DISK –this is extremely important.
Exercise 1—Go about your house and see if you can find and sketch evidences of spheres living among you. What about on the streets—do you see anything there and HOW about in nature—look about and sketch spheres in ALL of these environments.
Exercise 2—Draw the M&M dispenser—I want all of you to do this one as a class project. In this Exercise not only are you to draw the spheres but I want you to help each other draw this subject as a CLASS PROJECT. Remember to start out simply and then build details once you have the basic shapes down.
Exercise 3. Listed below are are a series of photographs. See if you can spot the spheres an then using your new found spheres—draw the pictures—be on the lookout for other class subjects as well.
PS: Below are links to the previous class and pre-class threads!
Basic 101:Pre-Class Assignments and FAQs--PLEASE READ
Basic 101:Class1 Class 2 Class 3 Class 4
Good Luck and Happy Drawing!!!
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, and separate pic of the golf ball.
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