"Why are drawing eyeglasses then darned hard? What am I doing wrong?" This is a mutual dilemma. I've seen it a million times … a cute portrait fails miserably considering the subject of the drawing is wearing eyeglasses. Often, the confront looks skilful, and the glasses await similar a cartoon. Epic neglect!
And so what makes drawing faces with spectacles such a trouble? Over-thinking. Like all drawing issues, the problem is in our heads. It's lack of observation, and fashion as well much thinking. It's representation of what nosotros end upward creating what we "think" something looks like, instead of looking securely into the nuances for what information technology "really" looks like. When we aren't clear about what we're seeing, we have a tendency to overdraw to fill in the blanks. The issue is normally an overuse of line, which is a feeble attempt to make the details look more visible. This arroyo creates an outlined await resembling a cartoon drawing, or a comic book illustration.
Reality is subtle. Light and dark play off of each other, and fade gradually. Shadows create shapes that we're not used to seeing, making things await differently. Edges seem to go in and out of low-cal and dark, and go what are chosen "lost edges." Yes, it can exist confusing.
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But all of the problems can be corrected past simply studying the subject affair. Rather than looking at information technology for what y'all know it to exist ("These are eyeglasses"), do this:
• Look at information technology as a puzzle full of interlocking shapes.
• See it more abstractly.
• Wait for the patterns of light and night.
• Exist more objective, and less subjective.
• Draw it upside down, so you don't connect with the reference and then literally.
Look for shadows. The close-up profile of eyeglasses shows how important the shadows that are cast onto the confront are. Many of my students don't fifty-fifty meet this when they're studying their references. This is because we aren't used to looking for things like this in everyday life.
Can you see how psychological fine art actually is? It's always virtually what we "see," not what we call up nosotros "know." For instance, look at all of the geometric patterns seen in the eyeglass lenses. They're made up of reflections, and will alter due to the surroundings. This is plain not something nosotros're used to looking at. Shut observation reveals a whole new perspective.
Wait at the shut-up of the front view. This shows how the rims of the glasses are never outlined. Look at the edges. You tin meet how the calorie-free depicts the border, but it changes as information technology goes around. The edge is created past placing the darkness on either side. Let your dark create the light!
Sunglasses also showroom light and nighttime patterns. It's important to study the patterns of calorie-free and nighttime, because they're a mirror image of the things close by.
All in all, drawing faces with eyeglasses can be challenging, but fun. Take the over-thinking out of the equation, and written report the shapes. Run across the patterns. Allow all of those shapes to come together like a puzzle, and exit the outlining to the the comic books!
Hope that helps!
Lee
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