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NEGATIVE DRAWING

Sleeping Tiger Optical Illusion www.moillusions.com

Negative Drawing Uses negative space (white part)Uses positive space (black part)

Huggers by Dan Moller, aka freehandhttp://threadlessrules.com

WHAT DO YOU SEE FIRST?Rubins Vase http://www.livescience.com/

GESTALT

Study of how humans organize visual information into a meaningful whole

Human brain sees objects as symbols for classification- tries to take over!

Difficult to draw what you see, not what you know

BRAIN SAYS Trees are tree-shaped Star is star-shapedPeople are stick figures

Some artwork emphasizes negative spaceIn Black and WhiteImage sources: www.blendspace.com www.pinterest.com

and some in ColorImage sources: www.tanyauhoong.com www.pinterest.com

Progression of Negative Drawing TechniqueImage sources: Mike Sibley www.artinstructionblog.com

Negative Drawing MasteryShapes defined by their surrounding tonesImage sources: Woodland Encounter by Bev Doolittle