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    Drawing Circles

    Feb 08, 2018 4 minutes
    By Brett A. Jones

    Being able to sketch a perfect circle freehand is not so much a good trick as an essential element of freehand drawing.

    You will rarely find a perfect circle in any representational composition you may be drawing, but you must be able to draw them freehand lightly and confidently in all sizes and both directions (clockwise and anti-clockwise), both off the shoulder (sketching) and off the wrist (drawing). It is a skill essential to being able to lay out your drawings in the initial stages. Perfect circles are the foundation and starting point to understanding, recognizing and drawing all the curves, spirals, tangents and all the subtle variations thereof in every composition you will ever draw.

    There’s no such thing as “too much practise” with these

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