Perhaps we can call this the minimalist KISS method, Keep It Simple Stupid-KISS.
Minimalism is an art form in its own right just in case you didn’t know but in my brain I most often consider that less is more and without getting into any deep philosophy on this I often feel that simple is best. The process used for all drawing is construction through sequential building blocks with each being a step to the next and so on to completion.
When shading a drawing you can keep it to a minimum, by using the white of the paper as much as possible and only shading the darker areas, so as to reduce the amount of work needed in doing all of the detail. This can be very effective producing some nice drawings, that are in a style called chiaroscuro, where there are strong contrasts between light and dark. These where often practiced by drawing statues and plaster busts which would br very light in tone because they would often be white in color or very near white making it easy to keep the shading to a minimum only emphasizing the darkest tones.
To make drawing easy we need to reduce the amount of steps we take to get to an end result so we can do this in a number of ways. Reduce the drawing down to use a minimum number of marks in order to make the drawing more simple. This can be accomplished by making line drawings and examples of this can be seen in cartoon type drawings, Bart Simpson, Mickey Mouse characters are just a couple but there are probably thousands of others, meaning that simple is just as legitimate as the complicated.
Another method is tracing because it will reduce the time spent on doing a construction drawing and reduce the drawing to only be made up of simple lines. This can be a big saving depending on how much you know or understand about it and your ability because somebody who is good at drawing free hand by sight drawing can sometimes draw faster than they can trace some drawings. Tracing is also a very good tool for learning to draw and is I consider largely undervalued, under exposed and practiced by many if not all professionals because when you do drawing as a job of work time is money.
The key to drawing easy is to keep it simple, less is more because if you consistently draw in ways that are simple the harder ones get easier as well.
Simple pencil drawings, how to draw.
