Questions tagged [drawing]
Questions about drawing, the art of representing objects or forms on a surface using lines. Ask anything related to creating and perfecting drawings and illustrations.
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Prototype Visualization: How can I learn to render glass convincingly?
Rendering design prototypes for many materials can become easy once you learn to predict how the material will behave in given lighting conditions.
However highly reflective and transparent materials ...
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Must one have a knowledge of fine art to be a Graphic Designer? Should all Graphic Designers know how to draw?
Is it true that nice design comes with a nice drawing?
Do designers have to know how to draw to be a good designer or not?
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From a CAD model to an Illustration drawing. How to?
I am trying to draw the best illustration I can for a user manual.
I have a CAD drawing in .STP and I would like to get some simple illustations in .AI or .EPS or .SVG
I tried to export the ...
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What is this circle technique called?
What is this technique called:
http://dribbble.com/shots/260469-Squirrel-Construct
See how the image is the result of overlapping many circles to create the final drawing. Parts of the circles ...
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How to study anatomy as an artist?
I am painfully aware that nearly all my paintings and drawings seriously lack in terms of proper anatomy. The figures often look unnatural, twisted, deformed etc. More advanced colleagues told me I ...
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Beginning with drawing
I want to begin with drawing but I have literally no experience. I wonder if there are high quality video tutorials, like www.digitaltutors.com just for drawing?
I want to start with hard surface ...
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Faded Colour Code Calculation
I know multiple programs that calculate colours based on a percentage. I really love when colours are displayed this way as they seem to fade in a non-luminous dull way that is really indicative of a ...
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If I reference a medical textbook or website for hand drawing bones is that considered copyright infringement?
I can't quite figure this one out. I am not copying a custom piece of work, I am copying something that is available in nature, bones. I am also not tracing it, I am drawing by hand using them as a ...
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Pressure-sensitive freehand drawing of vector paths that are editable with the Illustrator Width tool?
In illustrator, you can do pressure-sensitive drawing with the Blob Brush tool (if you set Width to Pressure in the settings from double-clicking the icon). You can also fine-tune the widths of paths ...
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Rotating a square
I want to rotate a square around it's vertical center line (red).
Looking at it from above (top right circle on image) I can tell that the object should, after the rotation, appear shorter length-...
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Illustrator: How to draw circles at control points?
I drew a polygon using the pen tool. Now I'd like to draw small circles (illustrating vertices) at the polygon control points.
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Handdrawn like pencil sketch with inkscape
I have made this sketch with MS Visio which looks like it is handdrawn with a pencil:
How can I achieve this with inkscape?
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What are some techniques to give drawings 3D appearance?
I am very new to this world of graphics design. I have noticed that some drawing look 3D but I have no clue what's making them perceived like that. For example how can I turn a circle to look like a ...
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Is it possible to create 3D red/cyan anaglyphs in a hand drawing?
There are plenty tutorials online on how to create 3D red/cyan anaglyphs from existing photos in Photoshop or similar software.
However, I'm wondering if it is possible to draw a 3D image by hand on ...
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How would I draw a shadow from a spherical object onto a non-flat surface?
I am trying to figure out how to draw a shadow from a spherical object onto a non-flat surface. How would I draw the distortion of the shadow onto the surface?
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Is there a way to imitate a pencil or pen in illustrator?
I'm working with illustrations and I realized that it's easier to draw lines in Illustrator and combine them in Photoshop with other effects and textures. The problem is that I cannot find a way to ...
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Closing paths drawn with the Illustrator pencil tool?
Prompted by John's question about leaving paths unclosed.
Drawing with the pencil tool (or the paintbrush tool) in Illustrator leaves the paths it makes open. Unlike the pen tool, there isn't an ...
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How to draw different coloured waves in Photoshop?
I want to know how to draw waves like patterns in photoshop easily.
I have attached an image of it so you can get an idea of what I'm talking about:
(source: gstatic.com)
Please anybody help me in ...
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How can I improve my handwriting ability?
I really like writing encouraging letters to my friends every so often. Writing them by hand makes them feel a lot more personal, but I am always hesitant to do so because my handwriting has always ...
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Learning to draw: start in the pen and paper realm or the digital space?
My question is should I start with paper to learn to draw or learn to digitally draw with Photoshop or Illustrator or any image manipulation application.
I am thinking of using a book or some other ...
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I'm trying to make my character look big, strong, and imposing, but it always ends up cute and fat. What am I doing wrong?
Here is a quick example sketch:
This is supposed to be a big, strong, evil, imposing demon-sculpture, but to me it just looks a bit too cute and cuddly. What should I be doing to make it look more ...
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How to randomly distribute a group of icons / graphics in a canvas?
I want to design something like this:
It has been established in previous answers that these are doodle graphics.
Some ways to make them manually are seen on here and here.
How can I make one or ...
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How to improve angle and proportion perception?
Im having a bit of a problem with my perception of angles and proportions. While I compare some elements of my drawing to each other, they seem to be fine. In a portrait, say, the browridge seems to ...
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Software that simulates a wooden drawing doll?
I am learning to draw figures, and a wooden doll (pictured below) is a lot of help. But I'm having issues keeping a specific angle in regards to the doll. Even a little shift in position can make the ...
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How can I improve my drawing tablet skills?
I've tried using my fianceé's tablet a few times, but find it difficult looking at the screen instead of my hand as I'm working.
Does anyone have any tips for becoming more comfortable so I can make ...
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What is a "visual library" and how to work on it?
Reading through concept art forums, Ive met an opinion, that one of the most important things for a concept artist is to have a vast visual library. Out of the context of that opinion I take that this ...
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How to draw Samtaegeuk (yin-yang symbol but with three swirls, each a different colour)?
I'm trying to draw a Samtaegeuk symbol, which is essentially a yin-yang symbol with three swirls, each one a different colour.
I found the guide below for drawing the two-swirl Korean taegeuk, but I ...
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Is there a gesture-like exercise for drawing faces?
Many people told me doing gestures is great as a learning tool, gives you the pencil mileage, feeling for shape, form and proportion, and so on.
I started doing them, basing my tries on this, this ...
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What is the drawing style called that is used in the RSA Animate lectures?
What is the drawing style called that is used in the RSA Animate lectures?
See some videos here: http://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL39BF9545D740ECFF
I don't think they are standard caricatures, but ...
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Which software can produce drafting scale line diagrams
Which software can be used to draw lines at exact measurements? I am looking for a tool which could be used for example to draw a top down view of the turning circle for a car. The drawing would ...
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Is there a software that converts free-hand objects into shapes?
I was wondering if there is a tool/software (tablet or laptop with touch screen) which lets me draw a chart/diverse shapes or just a line that converts/brings the imperfect hand-drawing automatically ...
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Can you see while drawing on the drawing tablet?
I bought a drawing tablet. But when I draw on it, I can see the drawing I am making in an image editing software such as Microsoft Paint or on Microsoft Office products, but I cannot see anything on ...
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Vectorise scientific pencil drawings
I like to draw every now and then and I guess, the results are OK for a computer scientist.
Schematics like the eye on the left are sometimes needed in scientific publications and when you use ...
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How do I draw the inside of a torus?
I'm trying to make a drawing of the interior of a Stanford Torus, similar to this:
Is there a way to draw the perspective of the torus accurately without using a 3D model?
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How to vectorize a graph from a raster image
I have an image of a graph and want to redraw this graph in Illustrator.
Full size image
Is there any "trick" to do this? I am trying with the pen tool but it's very hard to reproduce that the fine ...
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Which drawing technique should I take when learning to draw?
I'm a completely beginner who want to learn 3D Modelling. From what I learned from some online document, I at least need basic drawing skill, which could help me a lot for learning 3D Modelling. When ...
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How to use "add/subtract/intersect from path/shape area" effectively in Photoshop?
I'm attempting to follow the below Photoshop tutorial, but steps 29 and 30 have me stumped.
The larger of the two white rectangles in the below image was created on its own layer. Once I have that ...
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Calculating correct line length in perspective drawing?
I have no formal technical drawing background, and I was just wondering if there was a mathematical way of determining the correct length of lines in 3D perspective, e.g., if I want to draw a cube in ...
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Gimp - jagged pencil and brush strokes [SOLVED]
I am using Gimp 2.8.14 on Ubuntu 14.04 and a Wacom tablet (Intuos 3 6x8).
My problem is that I cannot make a smooth stroke even when I check the Smooth stroke in the Tool Options panel. When I do ...
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Drawing tools for scientific papers
Hello I would you to propose me a program which can be used to make figures on scientific papers. An example of a figure that I want to create is of a body (2d) with forces on it, or figures with ...
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How do I use the paint brush with a fill in illustrator?
I'm watching the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cljS0rL5-Ko . The video's author uses the paint brush tool with a fill and a stroke to draw the character.
Every time I try to draw with a ...
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What drawing style are the esurance characters?
What drawing style are the esurance characters? Actually, more specifically what drawing style is this Gorilla?
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Illustrator: Snap at some distance from existing objects
I'm drawing a bus line map. On some streets several bus lines pass together, so parts of the lines should be parallel and on a uniform distance from each other.
Ideally, I would like that when I draw ...
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Illustrator: Expanding Blended Strokes
so I got a bit of a cartoon wing type situation going on here.
I drew this with just the standard pen tool, and I don't really know anything about how wings are supposed to look like, still I ...
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Drawing thin shapes without losing quality or being blurry
I want to draw an "x" and the size needs to be 8 × 8 and 10 × 10 but I can't do it without losing quality and it being blurry.
I tried in Photoshop and Illustrator, I tried to draw it big ...
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How can I drag 2 points inverted in Sketch?
I want to take 2 points of the object I'm creating in vector mode and drag them in an inverted fashion, so the distance from the center to the 2 points stays the same. This would allow me to create ...
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How does the distance between stationary point and picture plane effect perspective?
I want to understand what happens when you increase or decrease the distance between the stationary point and the picture plane?
I tried drawing a border (approximately 9” x 12”) on a real window ...
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How can I digitize a hand made logo without Photoshop?
I'm graduating from High School, and I am in charge of designing the representative logo of my classroom. I made this logo, and I want to digitize it, I want to play with the colors and make it more ...
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Adobe Draw - Shadows and highlights
I am using Adobe Draw for the first time, I am pretty happy with my line work so far, but I am having an issue of where to put my highlights and shadows.
This is my attempt
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How to create doodles/sketches similar to those on Dropbox home page?
I am new in design, and recently I have been given a task where I have to create images like the ones present on dropbox.com home page.
I am not sure what is the correct way of creating those images....
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