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Cutting Spheres
Daily Draw

Cutting Spheres

Form Lines for the Second Basic Form

Mallory
Jun 03, 2024
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We don’t see too many perfect spheres when we’re drawing from life—but when we know the ideal form of the sphere by heart, it’s easier to adapt to drawing any sphere-like form that we may find.

For our Daily Draw exercise this week, let’s practice simple line drawings of spheres, using “cross-hair” form lines to orient each sphere in space.

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