There is a term you may have heard throughout the art community and maybe even math. There is a thing known as 3d dimension or 3d form. This is a major foundation within art and it is not so simple as drawing a cube but it becomes more of perspective and also understanding how to break things down. This differs from 2d shapes because nothing in real life is a 2d shape and what gives things life is 3d forms in which objects are in our everyday life.
So you might begin to question how a form is directly applied to art and why it is so important. Sure, people talk about it but it is like one of those things that you feel might be thrown around that makes no sense to you.
Examples of form
The examples of form are endless.
Basics of Basics of FormHow to practice FormThe first thing you should know about form, it's fucking hard. There's no doubt it is probably one of the hardest things you will try to draw. It may not look like it at first but as you slowly learn to draw you realize it is really hard to learn in itself. So how do you learn it? Learning it you can use either traditional or digital, but for money wise, I would suggest digital if you had to pick but it doesn't matter too much. You need to follow the rules and practice so please actually read resources and their exercises. Form is very much a practical and logical fundie. Pick a resource and try to stick to that resource. Resources
DAB is a free resource, I would suggest doing 0 to 1 lessons for basic foundation of form.
A 2 hour video that reviews more in depth the basics, suggested for those feel they need more details and info than the other videos.
This is to show more real life example of a cube and drawing it using real life object exercise.
There are more resources out there
Peter Han, Kim Jung gi, and more people have classes or resources online but, they may not be free. Those are options for more detail and more quality resources if you feel that other stuff is not clicking for you. Keep in mind, that form follows perspective rules however, form is not perspective. Perspective is the rules an object follows or Perspective is the rules that dictate how forms appear and are drawn. This is the reason why form and perspective are slightly different from each other. In an image forms rarely ever appear from different perspectives instead, all the forms usually follow one cohesive perspective rule. For the love of god, please look up resources on pinterest or twitter for more guides on random form stuff.
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Clothing is something where the small details do matter and understanding how the clothing is made and stitched together really changes how you go about drawing it. Something a lot of people get wrong is that basically, the type of cloth a clothing is really changes how the wrinkles and folds interact. Thick cloths will always have less folds and wrinkles while thin will bring a bunch. This is why when you compare silk to something like wool you can see the entire difference between the folds and wrinkles.
ALSO: REFERENCE FFS Types of Folds and WrinklesSome notes
Generally, if you have stiff pencil strokes or control of your pen then no amount of drawing and copying hair methods will fix that. You would need to do exercises to loosen your grip and become more confident in your strokes. Also, reference the hair you are trying to draw. I have no idea why I keep having to say this but if you are not good with something then you should have more than one reference.
Breaking Down Forms of the hair into parts:
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