Wondering what to do for Father’s Day?
Take a tip from a dad – Dad’s love to receive home-made cards.I know how it is – you just can’t think of what to draw on a Father’s Day card? Click the picture and zoom over to my drawing school site where you can view a video that teaches you how to draw a Ferrari 458 Spyder – a super cool car, or what? I’m sure most Dad’s would love to have a card with that on it.
The ferns are really busting out in the Forest now. I always marvel at how they explode out of the ground and uncurl. They are masterpieces of fractal design, imperceptibly growing in un-noticeable stages. Each new stage of growth looks so like the last one, you can’t see the joins or how it got as big as it did. When it’s grown it looks like it must have always been like that.
I’ve picked up a few ferns for my garden over the years. They are all slightly different, but they all have that wonderful uncurling system.
While making my videos I realised that I have developed a natural sense of perspective over the years and have come to take it for granted, yet many people don’t quite get how it works and if you are young and never been shown, then you won’t know about it anyway.
I was shown a trick in perspective drawing when I was about seven years old, that I’ve never forgotten. My God father, who was an architect and always drawing, showed me how to draw an ocean liner coming towards you, like they do on those wonderful poster from the twenties and thirties.
I’ve used the same kind of image here but, with the wonders of printing stuff out from the internet have brought the lesson up to date a bit. The basic lesson about perspective is still the same. Straight lines continue to a vanishing point on the horizon.