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Introduction For many centuries artists-in-training spent a great deal of time copying the work of previous artists. This method of learning can be useful to the student of design. Copying can help you to learn how the original artist made the marks. Reproducing those marks helps train your hand and eye to make marks of your own. Naturally, to claim authorship of someone else's drawing is plagarism: you should put a note on each copy indicating the original artist's name as well as your own. Description of the Exercise Find reproductions of a number (10 or more is best) of realistic drawings of people, and copy them. Try to copy drawings, not paintings or photographs. The copies should look as much like the original as you can manage. A good variation is to put the drawing that you are copying upside down while you copy it. This helps you see the drawing as "marks on paper which you are trying to reproduce," rather than as "person," "hand," "nose," etc. At first, this is slow going, but you'll get used to it. |
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