by Mindy Lighthipe | Feb 4, 2020 | Colored Pencil, Drawing Tips, How-To, Light on Form, Online Art Classes
Do you want your drawings and paintings to have more form? Are trying to make things 3 dimensional and for some reason they keep coming out flat? There can be many reasons this is happening. Understanding surface contour, how light hits the form, what the surface...
by Mindy Lighthipe | Sep 1, 2017 | Botanical Art, Drawing Tips, How-To, Online Art Classes, Uncategorized
Do you really understand the term Eyelevel? One of the most important aspects about drawing is training your eye to recognize the level and angle you are looking at. Too often we don’t pay enough attention to the height of a subject in regards to the...
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by Mindy Lighthipe | Oct 25, 2014 | Drawing Tips, Surface Contour
Good drawing skills are essential if you want to depict nature realistically. I can not stress this enough. Too often artists solely work from photographs. Unless they have a good foundation of drawing skills the finished work of art falls short. Adding paint never...
by Mindy Lighthipe | Nov 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
Great Videos Explain Foundation Drawing of Flowers The single most important thing that a botanical artist must do to make a successful illustration is get the proportions and morphology of the plant correct. The foundation of this is in the drawing. Drawing is so...
by Mindy Lighthipe | Nov 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
Using Photography in Botanical & Scientific Illustration I recently received an e-mail from one of my readers about tracing from photographs. Here is her question: "I'm fairly new to the "training" of natural science illustration. Recently, I...
