"Good tracing" is in fact, not quite tracing but redrawing. The result is a new confident drawing based on the original. They take that same drawing and the same tracing paper and REDRAW the original drawing underneath, using it as a guide and making confident line CHOICES. The end product looks like a wobbly, ugly version of the original drawing.
They take, say, a drawing, put some tracing paper over it and mindlessly follow the lines of the original drawing underneath. There are two kinds of tracing, the bad kind and the good kind. Well, once the under drawing is done, you then draw over your under drawing, either directly, or on top with another piece of paper, "tracing" the final lines of your drawing.
So what does this have to do with tracing? Have you been doing it? I didn't think so. It's there so you're final drawing looks good. The purpose of the under drawing is to explore the direction you want to take the drawing and solve any problems the drawing asks you to solve. It's not meant to be perfect by any means. The majority of professional, do what is called an "under drawing".Īn "under drawing" is a rough pass, or trial run for a drawing. I know of very few professional draftsmen who can just pick up a pencil, start in one corner of the page, and magically have a finished art piece in one pass. By the time we're done, you'll know how to set down the guides that will help you control the most complicated types of drawing. In this lesson, you'll learn how to use tracing to refine your drawings and your control over what happens on the page. What's that? You thought tracing was bad? You wish you had an "anchor" or SOMETHING to guide you, so that you know where to place your pencil as you draw. The truth is, when you put down a line to draw a face, a circle, or a stick figure body, you either don't know where it will end up when your done, or you do know, but it just ends up somewhere else. You're doing the exercises but you're getting frustrated. You understand the concepts being taught. You know what you want but you don't know how to get there. You can't seem to get it down the first time.
Art is knowing which ones to keep." ~Scott Adams <= CLICK TO TWEET Getting it Perfect the First Time "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
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