How I Draw Spherical Panoramas
Ever since I first sketched a spherical panorama in the Procreate app, people have been asking for a tutorial, so I've finally put together the steps for how I did it. I had seen illustrations that you can pan around before and I wanted to figure out a way to do one on site, rather than make it in my studio from photo references. I will start by saying that panoramic urban sketches done on location are nothing new. The brilliant G é rard Michel and Arno Hartmann have been doing them for some time, and Arno had already been taking his analog images done on site and turning them into scrollable panos with computer software years before I set out to try this. Most of the time when I draw in curved perspective I draw "intuitively," meaning I don't set up any vanishing points or use any rulers or grids. In researching this process I knew that to do a 360 degree drawing accurately I would need an equirectangular grid with 2:1 proportions. I found one, along with a ton of
Hi Paul, My teacher once told me, figure drawing should spend more time in observation and you will need less time to draw. How do you distribute your time on life drawings? Is it very different than urban sketching on time management?
ReplyDeleteHi Alvin, I agree there is a certain amount of observation that one needs to do before drawing, but I don't know if I think there is a difference between the figure and anything else. I know I'm always running out of time with my figure sketches, so maybe I should try looking longer first ;) Of course, observation only goes so far. If you have never drawn before, you can spend all day looking at something, but that doesn't mean you will know how to draw it when you finally start.
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