You don’t need to worry about colour theory or any complicated composition planning. You sample the colours from the original photograph as you go and working quickly you aim to “roughly” recreate the photo. This method is the inspiration behind my speed painting exercise.īasically, you try your best to recreate a photograph via digital painting. What you end up with is a tonne of rough drawings but you will be surprised how quickly they start getting better and more accurate. Working fast (in my opinion) also seems to override the part of the brain which makes you overthink and worry about getting it right. This exercise was designed specifically for cell animation which requires the artist to draw the individual frames of an animation. The purpose of the exercise was to simply practice the mechanical act of drawing without planning or thinking things through. The harsh time limit means you have to work really fast and capture the essence of the subject and not the fine details.
The catch was we only had thirty seconds to draw each student before moving on to the next drawing.Īs you would expect this was very challenging at first because you really struggle to get the drawing right in only 30 seconds. We would take turns drawing each other in various positions and postures.
We used to practice a drawing exercise which was fantastic at improving our drawing skills in a short space of time. The idea for this tutorial and this technique came from my days at college studying animation.
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