Mitch Drawing Tips - Volume 1

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Mit T IP S
W I N G book full of
DR A mini tutorials
- volume 1 -
Mitch'
Drawing tips
- volume 1 -
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introduction
Thanks for reading my you with your drawings.
little book. I love tutorial If you want more tips
books. They helped me and books you can visit
learn all the things I’m my Instagram profile
using to draw my work to find more. You can
now. Through posting also always send me
small tutorials on an email or try to reach
Instagram I experienced out on Instagram to ask
how fun it was to share something.
my knowledge and try to
help other artist. I hope Best,
this little book can help Mitch
action line
I always try to start with your shapes around
an action line. This helps it and go with the flow
to avoid stiffnes in your of the line. See the
drawings. First think examples. No worries if
about what you want to you don’t get it at once.
tell. It doesn’t have to Try study the following
be complicated. It can drawings or study old
be just something like cartoons from Disney or
“A little fox sitting and Looney Tunes.
looking cute upwards”.
Think of a line that tells
that storry and draw
Illustratie
expressions
Acting is an important expressions. Try to
part of character design. think here also in lines
On my desk I have a of action. It can help to
mirror. If I start drawing simplifie your design
an expression I try to act with shapes and draw
it out and look at it in the arrows on top of it to get
mirror. It helps if you feel the force right.
it yourself before you
start drawing it. In the
following images I show
how I construct the face
and how I make those
painting
If I paint digitaly I use it more simple for my self. You only need to consider
Adobe Photoshop. You In the next image I show the casting shadows etc.
could use other software that with the sphere. If on top of that. You can
as well. Photoshop is just you have drawn the spere also start with only the
the program I grew up you can apply that on values so you can focus
with and in the end it’s your character. If you can first on light and after that
just a tool. I always found draw the spere, you can on color. Keep it simple
painting quite hard and also paint the character. for yourself and try to
complex. There are so This is because the spere think in steps.
many things to consider covers all the angles
when painting. It really of the surface your
helped me when I made character has.
ink & cell shade
Sometimes I get to loose life and get stiff.

asked how I do get Keep practising.
clean lines. I think the
most important thing In industrial design
to achieve that is to they do practise this by
practise and find out making straight lines on
what you find working a sheet of paper and
best. So experiment. In draw many circels as
Photoshop you can turn practise. This is actualy
on the smoothness, this a good way and this will
can help you but watch improve your inking.
out for your lines starting
perspective
Perspective can be mainly because it doesn’t perspective point in it.
overwelming, but if have to be perfect for When that is set up I
you follow some steps me. I often start with a start sketching on top of
it can be really easy. rough sketch without it and follow the lines.
There are some really any perspective lines. This way I keep it simple
good books about it, When I’m happy with the for my self.
just Google ‘perspective sketch I start drawing the
books’ and you’ll find horizon line and deside Sometimes I use basic
them. In the following where I put the first and 3D to set it up. But I think
examples I show the second perspective it’s important to to learn
basics and actually I only point. If I want to make how to draw perspective
use these basic steps, it extreme I put a third by hand first.
perspective
Sometimes using 3D like playing with LEGO
is more quicker than and can help with the
drawing perspective design proces. I use
by hand. What’s nice Blender 3D because it’s
about 3D is that you free software you can
can rotate around it and download from their
draw the same space website. But before
ship in different angles you start learning
and you don’t have to basic 3D try drawing
draw the basic shapes perspective first and try
again. I also like using to understand it.
3D because it feels
backgrounds
Backgrounds can be a and small shape. Also try movies or life action
lot of work but are also to think how you want to movies is always a good
a lot of fun to work on. I guide the eye trough the idea by the way!
try to use different things drawing. Let it flow.
to help me out. Like the Try to look for the
rules of third, the golden An other great practise composition and why it is
ratio or thinking in big is to go outside and try the way it is.
shapes. This makes to make backgrounds
creating a compositon from life. Draw the
easier. For example neighbour’s house, or
if you start with a big the inside of a cafe etc.
shape, medium shape Studying old animated
sketchbook
If you want to become from life, drawing stuff think of. Or sometimes I
an artist it is important to outside of my comfort go to a Youtube channel
draw a lot. But between zone, participating in with figure drawing and
all the stuff you have drawing challenges take some screenshots
to do it can be hard on social media or to use those to do
to find time. That is just draw crocodiles some figure drawing
why I always carry a because I like to. If you wherever I am. The
sketchbook with me. can’t find inspiration just most important thing is
This way I can draw try drawing something to draw, draw, draw.
when I travel to work. I that is around you. Like
always try to experiment a person in the distance
in it. Like drawing or the first thing you

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