Drawing for Watercolour
FIVE BASIC COMPONENT SKILLS OF DRAWING
1) Seeing and drawing edges
(sometimes called “contour drawing”)
2) Seeing and drawing spaces
(called “negative spaces”)
3) Seeing and drawing relationships
(called “perspective and proportion”)
4) Seeing and drawing lights and shadows
(called “shading”)
5) Seeing and drawing the whole
(called gestalt - the “thing itself,” the essential nature of the observed subject,
which emerges spontaneously from the first four component skills).
Source: "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" by Betty Edwards
*gestalt: an organized whole that is perceived as more than the sum of its parts.
What is an under-drawing?
An under-drawing is the preparatory drawing on your watercolour paper that begins the painting process.
This initial drawing places your subject on the page and defines where all the elements of the painting are going to be. Jude Scott refers to this as 'mapping and plumbing"
(sometimes called “contour drawing”)
2) Seeing and drawing spaces
(called “negative spaces”)
3) Seeing and drawing relationships
(called “perspective and proportion”)
4) Seeing and drawing lights and shadows
(called “shading”)
5) Seeing and drawing the whole
(called gestalt - the “thing itself,” the essential nature of the observed subject,
which emerges spontaneously from the first four component skills).
Source: "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" by Betty Edwards
*gestalt: an organized whole that is perceived as more than the sum of its parts.
What is an under-drawing?
An under-drawing is the preparatory drawing on your watercolour paper that begins the painting process.
This initial drawing places your subject on the page and defines where all the elements of the painting are going to be. Jude Scott refers to this as 'mapping and plumbing"
Excellent Reading here: Drawing Basics: How To Find Angles and Proportions In Linear PerspectiveSource of Line of Sight image: (a Visual Approach to Linear Perspective)