Are there any good drawing programs for the unartistic?
What I am thinking of is the ability to place predefined images into a scene and also to edit the images. It is sort of the computer analog of decorating a room by moving around furniture. There may already be CAD systems that do what I would want.
As I see it, everything would be in 3D. You could adjust the camera position and angle.
Every object would be broken down into pre-defined components, which could be individually edited. You could also resize the entire object.
Objects would have pivot points that would allow, for example, movement and rotation of a person’s limbs.
The basic idea would be to have a lot of things be done automatically. For example, you might be able to select a person’s clothes or hair style and the program would automatically adjust to the size of the person. There would be limits on what could be done in order to make the program easy to use.
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If you can’t find your dream program, you might try the book, “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.” It helps you see images in a different way and allows you to draw what you learn to see.
Google Sketchup could fit the bill. And it’s free so it’s worth a shot.
@Sunny2 – I fell in love with that book, it helped me through my art degree; great way to get over ‘not being able to draw’.
Yes, check out DAZ 3D You can create 3D models/animations by selecting from a wide range of humans/clothes/environments. And new models/environs keep coming out time to time… I’ve not used it but it seems to be a perfect fit for your description.
And though this next one is not 3D or color, its helpful for ‘unartistic’ people who might want to sketch faces
All this stuff exists for specific purposes—designers and furniture showrooms sometimes have “move the furniture” stuff—so do developers of condo/townhouse projects. Plastic surgeons have “change-your-face- stuff and of course law enforcement—build a face, age a face, etc.
But these things are built for customers with specific uses for a price.
When Disney World’s Epcot center first opened in 1981—an early version of this was offered with picking your cartoon character [dragons and whatnot] and doing things with it. That program was developed by Rand Corporation. My how we have grown up since then.
@Sunny2, I have that book at home, but I have never gotten around to reading it. There has always been something else that distracted me. I will look at it again.
@dverhey, Sketchup is a nice program, but not quite what I want.
@krrazypassions, I will download DAZ_3D and check it out. From the description on the Web site, it is not clear how much the figures can be manipulated.
@anartist, I was not aware of the special purpose programs. I still have this image in my mind of a crime victim being shown a bunch of sketches in a book to help identify a criminal. I should have figured that there would be programs for doing this.
@LostInParadise Have a sheet of paper and a pencil ready. There are instructions of what to do. Oh, and on the flower drawing, choose a flower that has relatively simple lines. I chose a composite bloom and quickly got bored.
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