← Drawing, Again · Lesson 3 of 5
The gaps between
Look at a chair. Now look only at the empty shapes between its legs and rungs, and draw those shapes instead of the wood.
Gaps are easier to see truly, because you have no name for them. You know what a chair leg "should" look like; you have no idea what the space beside it looks like, so you draw what is there.
Shade the gaps lightly. The chair appears around them.
Why can the empty shapes be easier to draw than the chair itself?
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