Issue 1
March 9, 2006
Hi, and welcome to Learning2draw.com's newsletter. This issue includes:
1) Our Q&A Answer Session, where you will learn exciting secrets of the artworld exposed through answers to your questions.
2) Send us Your Success Stories- we'd love to hear from you!
3) Da Vinci's secrets to the human figure. What was the Mona Lisa really smiling about? Proportions Part 1
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Question and Answer Session with Todd
QUESTION: from Scot
HI! thanks for making me able to ask you a few questions about your art career. OKAY first thing! what would a normal day be like for you? what would you do? get up? go to sleep? My second, what are some pros and cons of being an artist? Third question, what skills do you need for this career? technological skills? personal skills? UM i think thats it... did you have to do any training or schooling to get where you are?
ANSWER: from Todd
Scot, thanks for your questions. Life for an artist is different for every artist but I can answer your question in a few general terms. Fist, what would a normal day be like for me? Well, I tend to go to work around 9 or 10 am and work till 7 or 8 p.m., if it's not a busy time for us as a company. During the summer is our busy time as we try and get games out for the Thanksgiving sales. My hours during these times are more like 7am till 12am or midnight. After a normal day at work, I come home and start working on art! I am working on a graphic novel right now and it is taking a lot of my time. So, I go to bed around 3 am and then sleep till 9 or so.
Some of the positives about being an artist are: You are free to create your schedule and free to your imagination. I would hate to be an accountant or something where you don't have an outlet to creativity. Also, I like the fact that I love my job. I was never great in school but found that with hard work anyone with the right amount of passion can have an art career.
Negatives to an art career? I can't think of any!
The skills you need as an artist depends on what type of artist you want to be. Technology is here and so keeping up on painter and studio max and some others is really important. But, the number one skill that I can suggest for any artist is to learn to draw the human figure and to do it well.
I say this because it is a skill that can be taken into any art form, such as fantasy, cartooning, gaming, modern, traditional, etc.
You can read about my training on the Art Careers 101 download, like I say all the time, it's passion not talent that will get you where you need to go. It will develop your skills more than any thing.
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Send Us Your Success Stories!
We would love to hear from you on how our site and ebook have helped your art! So much so, that we will enter your name in a quarterly drawing for an art supply starter kit. Just email us your story to info@learning2draw.com with the subject line "Success in Art Stories", and we will enter your name for a chance to win pencils, paper, kneaded erasers, and more. Please email your story by May 5th for our first drawing.
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Da Vinci's Secrets! Proportions...Part 1
So what was Mona Lisa really smiling about? Find out in our series on proportions by Da Vinci. Learning from the masters is a privileged step in being successful and mastering skills that will transform your figures into masterpieces.
Proportions of the head and face. By Leonardo Da Vinci
1) The space between the parting of the lips [the mouth] and the base of the nose is one-seventh of the face.
2) The space from the mouth to the bottom of the chin is the fourth part of the face and equal to the width of the mouth.
3) The space from the chin to the base of the nose is the third part of the face and equal to the length of the nose and to the forehead.
4) The distance from the middle of the nose to the bottom of the chin is half the length of the face.
5) The distance from the top of the nose, where the eyebrows begin, to the bottom of the chin is two thirds of the face.
6) The space from the parting of the lips to the top of the chin that is where the chin ends and passes into the lower lip of the mouth, is the third of the distance from the parting of the lips to the bottom of the chin and is the twelfth part of the face. From the top to the bottom of the chin is the sixth part of theface and is the fifty fourth part of a man's height.
7) From the farthest projection of the chin to the throat is equal to the space between the mouth and the bottom of the chin, and a fourth of the face.
8) The distance from the top of the throat to the pit of the throat below is half the length of the face and the eighteenth part of a man's height.
9) From the chin to the back of the neck is the same distance as between the mouth and the roots of the hair, that is three quarters of the head.
10) From the chin to the jaw bone is half the head and equal to the thickness of the neck in profile.
11) The thickness of the head from the brow to the nape is once and 3/4 that of the neck.
So what is the Mona Lisa smiling about? I dare say that she is smiling about her creator and his musings and formulas of art. The master has created a mystery that we as artists can only fathom. I hope that you have learned something from his formulas on proportion and stay tuned for Part 2, where we will learn like Da Vinci, how to draw like the masters and have our human figures come alive. We'll discover the secret to her smile, in our next issue. You can always check out our page at www.learning2draw.com for more info on how to draw faces and the human form.
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Peace and Have a Great Weekend!
Todd Harris Learning2draw.com
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