What’s Wrong With My Wacom? from John Hartman Illustration on Vimeo. “Yikes, my lines look like they just got back from an all-night bar crawl”! You paid a lot money for your Wacom tablet or Cintiq, so why doesn’t it work better? Drawing in Photoshop makes my lines look like they have been on a bar crawl. To […]
Human Proportions for Figure Drawing
If you study artistic anatomy as I do you will eventually run into the issue of finding an accurate reference for the proportions of the skeleton. What you need is the proportions of an average height male of 7.5 heads as a standard. There are plenty of examples of human proportion of the figure that […]
Shading Flat Surfaces
When rendering flat sided forms such as furniture or architecture it is helpful to have a clear idea of how to gradate the surface shading. If you leave the surfaces rendered in flat tones the feeling of light, atmosphere and form is hindered. Using gradations on flat surface can help but you need to be […]
Painting a Sphere
Whether you use charcoal, graphite, oil paint or a digital medium like photoshop, creating an image of of a sphere sitting on a table is a good way to both practice making illusions and developing confidence with your media. Key concepts introduced in these videos Shading rounded surfaces with the four levels of light: core […]