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Positive and Negative Spaces

Tài liệu tham khảo tiếng Anh về hội họa - Positive and Negative Spaces | NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE Brenda Hoddinott B-01 BEGINNER LEARN TO SEE Your ability to draw is greatly enhanced when you know how identify positive and negative spaces visually measure distances and apply the resulting information to your drawings. This article illustrates and demonstrates the process of breaking down subjects into positive and negative spaces and sketching their shapes within a drawing space. Information is divided into the following four parts -I- Seeing Lines between Spaces -I- Containing Spaces in a Drawing Space -I- From Seeing Spaces to Sketching Shapes -I- Examining the Final Stages of a Drawing Once you understand the process seeing spaces lines and shapes eventually becomes totally automatic and you can draw accurately without consciously focusing on the various stages. This project is recommended for artists and aspiring artists of all ages as well as home schooling academic and recreational fine art educators. 10 PAGES - 36 ILLUSTRATIONS Published by Hoddinott Fine Art Publishers Halifax NS Canada 2005 2 INTRODUCTION Before you can draw the lines that outline a drawing subject you need to know where to look. Contour lines are formed when the shared edges of spaces and or objects or parts of objects meet. Contour lines can outline a complete object as well as its individual parts. A contour drawing is a drawing comprised of lines that follow the contours of the edges of various components of a subject and define the outlines of its shapes. Shapes are the outward contours or outlines of objects. Basic shapes include circles ovals squares or rectangles Learning how to see the shapes of positive and negative spaces allows you to find and subsequently draw an outline of any drawing subject. Positive space is the space in a drawing that is occupied by an object and or its various parts. Negative space refers to the background around and or behind an object or another space. The edges of either the positive or negative space can help you identify .