![]() The beauty is that by the time the drawing is done and colored in, the creases will disappear. No, simply fold the sheet of paper in half both ways, make a crease, and unfold. So does that mean students need to get out a ruler to draw a big fat line down the center of their paper before they start? Goodness no, please don’t! That will most likely be hard to erase and distract from any finished art. It’s important to get that shape in place before the curve of the the seahorse’s body is added below.ĭrawing skills are all about getting the size and placement of lines on paper, so having some visual reference point to get started, will always help anyone learn how to be a little more accurate. If students make their own centered lines on their own paper, before drawing, they will have an easy reference to follow.įor instance, as seen in Step 1 below, the big circle for the head centers on the middle line of the paper, and sits just a bit down from the top of the paper. You may have noticed that all of the tutorials on this site have a dashed line running through the center of each step, both in the horizontal and vertical direction. The best way to get students off to a good start to any drawing lesson is to show them how to use guides as a reference point.
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