A Drawing Workout That Focuses On Negative Space To Make You Better At Drawing From Observation
Draw the space outside things to train your ability to see, to use as the basis for a drawing, and for fun.
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It is a good exercise for beginner artists to focus on the actual shapes they see. Your brain keeps trying to reduce things to symbols, and this is a good way to disable that and see the real shapes, copy them onto your page, and see the image re-emerge on your page.
It can be a good tool for drawing from memory also: first, memorize the negative space shapes, and as a second step, memorize the details inside and draw them too.
It is fun and useful to memorize a reference in steps, to draw and refine it repeatedly. Drawing the outside, the negative space of something, first, can be a good first step.
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