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A PowerPoint lecture series to accompany DRAWING FROM OBSERVATION

© 2002, The McGraw-Hill Companies Sensitive mark making Intuitive gesture Mondrian grid Clock angle perspective Positive/negative shape consideration Proportional measurement Time to Review

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© 2002, The McGraw-Hill Companies Outline (2D) vs Contour Line (3D)

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The official Drawing from Observation class flag

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© 2002, The McGraw-Hill Companies 1::35 (+) 1::23 (-) 1::1r

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Keep’em Moving

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1 :: 17

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“Houston, we have a problem.”

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Exaggerate the proportional foreshortening the curvature and degree of change in the cross-contours the convergence of receding parallel edges the line variation

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Disproportionate Scale

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Overlapping Edges

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Chiaroscuro Lite

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Cross-contour modeling

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Not the Comfy Chair!

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