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UdemyDraw a bowl of cherries with the Paintology drawing app
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Korshub's take
Practice Tracing and Tonal Accuracy With One Drawing
This short lesson uses the Paintology app's traced mode to draw a bowl of cherries, combining traditional tracing—a technique old masters relied on for accurate form—with the app's ability to pick out tones from the underlying reference image. That tone-reading skill is foundational to good drawing generally, not just this one subject.
Who It's For
Anyone using the Paintology app who wants a guided exercise in tracing and tonal accuracy, including complete beginners.
What You'll Practice
- Using Paintology's traced mode to achieve accurate form
- Reading and reproducing tones from a reference image
- Building drawing technique through a single focused subject
If a step doesn't click, the course points you to the app's built-in video tutorials for extra support.
About this course
Many old masters have used the techniques of tracing to get accurate form and shape in their drawings. It also accelerates your drawing skills and techniques especially for subjects that require a high degree of accuracy, for example portrait drawing.
In this modern age of digital technology there are tools available for doing tracing and the Paintology app has a unique feature called the traced mode. In this mode of drawing, you have the trace option just like the traditional method but in addition, it has the ability to pick out tones in the underlying reference image. This is fundamental to understanding and appreciating tones which a requirement for good drawing.
In this drawing, you will be able to draw this bowl of cherries while at the same time developing your drawing techniques.
Look for other Udemy classes with Paintology, just search for Paintology in the search box.
If you find this hard to do, I would recommend you go through some of the in-app video tutorials which you can find in the Tutorials section of the home page of the app.
Good luck!
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