Cubism: Seeing All Sides with Picasso (Part 10)

Practice multiple viewpoints in this art lesson: cubism: seeing all sides with picasso (part 10).

🎨 Studio Brief #78

Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque invented Cubism, showing objects from multiple viewpoints at once.

🎯 Your mission

Steal one trick. Use it your own way.

⚡ The twist

Find what the master left out.

What you'll learn

Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque invented Cubism, showing objects from multiple viewpoints at once. A face might show both profile and front view simultaneously.

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Techniques you'll practise

multiple viewpointsgeometric fragmentationmuted palette

You will need

Drawing paperScissorsGlue

Step 1 of 3

Choose a simple object (a guitar, a cup, a face) and draw it from the front.

Step 2 of 3

Now draw the same object from the side and from above on the same paper, overlapping the views.

Step 3 of 3

Break the combined drawing into geometric shapes: triangles, rectangles, and curves.

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