BUILDING A DRAWING
Every drawing evolves over time. Knowing where to begin, how to
proceed, and when to stop are crucial to the process of drawing.
Building up a drawing in asystematic way is an important
concept. We should advance by progressive stages and
construct a drawing from the ground up. Each successive
iteration or cycle through the drawing process should first
resolve the relationships between the major parts, then resolve
the relationships within each part, and finally readjust the
relationships between the major parts once again.
Tediously finishing one part of a drawing before going on to the
next can easily result in distorting the relationships between
each part and the rest of the composition. Maintaining a
consistent level of completeness or incompleteness across the
entire surface of adrawing is important to preserving aunified,
balanced, and focused image.
The following procedure prescribes a way of seeing as well as
drawing. It involves building up a drawing in the following stages:
• Composing aview and establishing structure --- ...........................
• Adding significant details -· ····· · ................................. --· .......
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