From the course: Illustrator for Non-Illustrators
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Still life drawing - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator for Non-Illustrators
Still life drawing
- [Instructor] Still life drawing is a time tested method for improving drawing skills. So let's take a look at how we can leverage this approach to further develop our creative abilities. Now the image you see in front of you is a still life painting. It started as a drawing by Paul Cezanne, master painter. And if you look closely, you can see some of his underdrawing here. Like at the top edge of the handle of this jar, the top rim of the jar, and specifically on the left-hand side as it goes through the area of the handle, you can see distinctly a line there. You can see other hints of that underdrawing on the table here, on the fruit here, and at the top edge of the table here. So, they usually; when they were doing still lifes like this they would do rough little sketches. And then in this case, they would paint what they were looking at. Now this is a good example of Paul Cezanne style. It's not realism. Paul Cezanne was part of the post-impressionism movement, and this is a…
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