Artist's Back to Basics

“More Magic Tricks”

In the last article we looked at what an indispensible proportional judgement tool the pencil in your hand can be in the process of creating an accurate freehand line drawing. There are other techniques in the same vein that don’t require anything but your eyes so I will endeavour in this case to lay down some more very useful information to help you with your freehand drawing journey that with a bit (or a lot) of practise should soak in deep and become second nature to be dragged out of your subconscious instinctively whenever required and used to mercilessly flog any drawing project into abject submission.

The first one that comes to mind is when you are well and truly stumped and for the life of you can’t seem to decide why your layout isn’t right while simultaneously knowing that it definitely isn’t. Make sure the photo

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