Sketching

Author: Li Guozhong
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
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The Path to Success—China Youth New Century Art Entrance Examination Series, edited and published by China Youth Publishing Group for ambitious young students aiming to enter art academies, is a series of art entrance examination guidance textbooks. This series is meticulously planned by experienced art entrance examination tutors based on the latest examination and teaching requirements of many famous art academies across the country. It is released in batches covering various subjects such as sketching, quick sketches, color, and design. The content is rich and systematic, making it a latest authoritative textbook for art foundation training and entrance examination preparation.
In sketching training, it is usually started with plaster geometric shapes because the white color of the plaster helps us change a concept: in real objects, pure white or pure black does not exist. Due to light and shadow changes, the plaster exhibits a rich range of different brightness tones, which are expressed through various "gray" tones—from the extremely light highlights on the bright areas to the different dark tones in the shadows, passing through various gray tones on the gray surfaces, reflecting the subtle black-and-white relationships on the shapes. At the same time, since plaster is simpler than colored objects, it can more clearly reflect its own geometric structure and contours, which is beneficial for beginners to observe and express. Additionally, simple geometric shapes help beginners understand all other objects and the complex structure of the human body. Therefore, in sketching teaching, it starts with simple geometric shapes to study the combination relationship between the whole and the part in static conditions, understand the rules of line and light and shadow changes, i.e., the specific embodiment of "three major planes" and "major tones" on plaster geometric shapes, and grasp the rules of perspective deformation.
Method steps are of great significance for beginners who are starting to study modeling. The steps of drawing reflect the understanding methods and modeling techniques of establishing form. Starting from composition, grasping the overall shape, and repeatedly deepening from the whole to the part, the shape, volume, light and shadow, tone, sense of quantity, and spatial relationships are realisticallyed, allowing students to learn how to shape three-dimensional forms on a two-dimensional drawing paper.