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Negative space

Negative space

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Negative space

So what I've got here is a photographic reference, the way they do a negative space drawing from. Do you notice what I've got on the page are some cross hairs that's I've just lightly drawn onto the frame, and this is going to help us with the actual drawing? I've also drawn these cross hairs onto the picture plane. You can use the cross hairs just with a non permanent marker or a permanent marker, if you really want to make sure that you can rub out your drawings, your future drawings you do on it. I have also drawn the inside of the frame on here, so this way you can just line up with the actual drawing and line up with the reference phase graph. So as you've learned, the negative spaces are the spaces in between the actual object. We're just going to focus in on that. So instead of having the whole flower, we're going to focus in on a more detailed area. And then to simplify it a bit more so, we haven't got the distraction of the color, we've then just got a black and white image…

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