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February 27, 2018 at 2:36 am #452094
Hello
I’m not a professional drawing.
In the next images, I would like to ask how to draw such perfect curves lines like in the illustrations.
Should I use French Cruve? (they seem a bit time consuming and sometimes error can occur). Or shoud I use a flexible ruber? Or should I train my hand to draw in such a perfect was (it’s a bit difficult I think?)Thank you
February 27, 2018 at 4:21 am #573856Those curves are not that extreme, you can very well learn how to do those by hand, but it is not a single day to night training
It is easier when you start with a drawing large enough that you can use your shoulder and elbow joints, not your fingers or wrist to do the marks ( it is easier to learn to do that if you are not drawing flat on a desk) . Shoulder and elbow are mechanically more stable joints and it is easier to make precise long curves that way.
It takes practice.. like what I did was.. every day in an easel with a block of newsprint I filled a full A2 sheet just before sleep. I filled it with circles, egg shapes, curves that I tried to pass over 3-4 points that I had pre placed in the paper.. When the sheet was completely full I would go to bed ( trying to train your motor system works best just before sleep). After about 1 month one day when I went there to draw.. it suddenly was much easier and almost all lines were landing perfectly where I wanted.. I continued the practice and every few weeks a new jump in capability. It is hard to know how much time will take for each person, but a couple of months is a good initial bet.
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February 27, 2018 at 12:04 pm #573858I do them with pencil using a curvigraph or a compass, and then go over them by hand very carefully.. see these:
SG1 and SG2
There is nothing wrong in using aids when it makes the work nicer and better. You could mask the shape and then just add the lines, you can use cuvigraphs, and compasses directly with your ink and also rulers or threads to guide you…
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February 27, 2018 at 2:13 pm #573860Tiago é engraçado você dizer que não parecem assim tão perfeitas porque para mim parecem estar perfeitas.
You mean a easel? (Um cavelete de pintura?) But my objective is to draw this in paper in a table in A4 bleedproof paper, not to paint it in canvas. Or do you mean I can use the easel to train, and after start to draw in a table?
Fedetony, what is a curvigraph?
February 27, 2018 at 2:24 pm #573859These are curvigraphs
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February 28, 2018 at 4:10 am #573857Tiago é engraçado você dizer que não parecem assim tão perfeitas porque para mim parecem estar perfeitas.
You mean a easel? (Um cavelete de pintura?) But my objective is to draw this in paper in a table in A4 bleedproof paper, not to paint it in canvas. Or do you mean I can use the easel to train, and after start to draw in a table?
Fedetony, what is a curvigraph?
I said not extreme. Extreme and perfection are not the same thing. The curves are rather simple, single movement ones. When you need to draw something that varies constantly that is where you have an extreme curve, for example drawing a spiral shape. Or when you need to have 3 or more parallel curves with same distance between them in all their spots (that is extremely hard to do without extra tools)
It is easier to learn to use your shoulder and elbow more in an easel than in a desk (in a desk you tend to bend yourself forward and make your shoulder rigid), but hat said a lot of people that DRAW, not paint, do it in an easel or drafting table at high angle. It is not something mandatory but for most people that want to learn to do long curves it is much easier since when you stand up your shoulder stays free to move.
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February 28, 2018 at 4:27 pm #573861Yes…
Curvygraphs I knew them as French Curves.
Yes, I already used them.. but they take a bit of time to use, and sometimes there can be a little mistake uniting 2 curves… but yes… I think the 2 only options… are to practicing like Tiago sayd or using French Curves
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