What drawing easy is about.
Drawing easy is about knowing how to do it and there are a number of ways but the best philosophy to adopt is represented by the KISS acronym, meaning (Keep It Simple Stupid) by this I mean minimal. The main reasoning for this is time, quick is most often considered easy where as slow is usually taken as the opposite this is not always the case but we are trying to keep it simple so I will not go into this reasoning too deeply now.
There are a number of different ways you can do this, one is by keeping your drawing to a minimum.
Perhaps we can call this the minimalist KISS method.
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.
To make drawing easy we need to reduce the amount of steps we take to get there 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 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 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 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 but practiced by many professionals.
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.
