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3D drawing

By jullia in Articles

Tip:
click on image above, view it in full screen mode (F11 in Firefox) and put on your 3D glasses.

The world around us is 3D, but the photos we capture, or the drawings/paintings that we make are 2D. Among time, people tried to change the 2D surface into a 3D one, or more exactely to give the illusion of a 3D one. This is how the stereoscopy appeared, which refers to any technique capable of recording three-dimensional visual information or creating the illusion of depth in an image.

It is amazing how you can hide a 3D image behind a 2D one. The last trend in the 3D images are the 3D glasses witch allows you to see… of course in 3D. So I’ve played a little with the Photoshop and some of my drawings, and I’ve created the above collage. The objects are not 3D, but there are 2 different viewing layers. If you move around you’ll have the illusion of the cat following those 2 lovers.

Another type of 3D images are the 3d stereograms. For those of you who can do the eye cross trick (see here video explanation of how to do this) and see 3D, click on the image below and see something very familiar with this website So, what did you see?
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The history of drawing

By jullia in Articles

Drawing.. what’s the importance of drawing? How simple is it? Does it has a practical role, or just an artistic one? People began drawing from the pre-historical period, and it was a way of communication, and among the years it’s main role remained the communication, the visual one.

I just discovered the BBC documentary named “The secret of drawing” – four part series, presented by Andrew Graham-Dixon, which explores how drawing has shaped our lives. I really recommend this documentary! See it in the videos bellow.

A friend from UK, Roy Simmons, recommended me a very interesting website DocuWatch – a website full with videos about art. If you are interested into art history, I would also recommend you the Smarthistory.org – which is a free multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional art history textbook.

Now, the more I learn about drawing, the more I realize I know so little..

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new drawing WIP1

By jullia in Articles

Materials: graphite pencils, on Strathmore Bristol Smooth paper, 11 x 14 inch. Reference: a photo from Paint my Photo

Hi there! I have started to be busy with the final exams from my master degree, but as always when I have exams I also have a huge urge to draw There is no time for this in the day, but there are nights.. so this is what I did in the last 2 nights. I really love the picture and how the drawing turns out. The reference is again from Paint my Photo website.

I don’t know yet what to draw in front of his eyes.. something that he is looking at so curious. I have some ideas, but I don’t know yet. Any suggestions?

Art swap revealed

By jullia in Articles

My art swap arrived in save conditions in USA. Jason Barre is the happy owner of my drawing with those 2 lovers. Jason Barre is a great painter artist. Coincidently I was watching his work, on Twitter. He plays nice with the colours, knowing how to reduce a gamma of a painting to only 2 or 3 colors.
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By jullia in Articles

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