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Drawing ideas, what to draw, has got to be one of the biggest questions ever or rather should I say that most of us have often said “I don’t know what to draw” because we want to do some drawing but have no drawing ideas or inspiration.  I do remember quite clearly saying to my parents or others when I was younger “I want to draw” and when I was older as well, “I don’t know what to draw, what can I draw?”  The problem is that it is not the right question and won’t bring results it is wasted because even if others tell you what to draw you don’t do it so the conclusion is that the answer is inside you. I am sorry but you are the only one who can answer that question, I can’t answer the question but I can help you to resolve it because it’s not really a question it’s a problem.

The real problem is simple to understand if you don’t put anything into the basket how can you get anything out of it, what I mean is this, if you don’t fill your head with drawing ideas then where do you think you are going to get your drawing ideas from?

If you think about the pictures you have drawn and the reasons why you did them you will find that it wasn’t because you had the urge to draw a car, a face or whatever, it was a specific car, face or whatever that you wanted to draw, this is often described as inspiration, a desire to draw it.

This is very often because you like whatever it is, especially when you are not very experienced, young, untrained or self taught because you have not disciplined yourself to understand why you draw these things, you just draw them because you’re enjoying it, you like it.

Inspiration is about what goes on inside your head, the things you think about, the things you dream about, the dreams you think about, so inspiration is about agitating/stimulating this process into action to give you food for thought.

Here’s the best part, we all do this all the time naturally but most of it is not channeled because we are distracted by life and living it’s self, unless we make time to nurture the process it gets lost in information overload.

Stimulation is only half of the story, we need to transfer this information from our imaginations into the real world, into something of substance and this is what you are drawing, your ideas, it is called self actualization.

Do you remember this statement “The real problem is simple to understand if you don’t put anything into the basket how can you get anything out of it, what I mean is this, if you don’t fill your head with drawing ideas then where do you think you are going to get your drawing ideas from?”

How to fill your head.

Nowadays it so easy to find something to draw I just go online to Google images I can get all the source material I could ever want and you people today don’t know how easy you have got it. When I was a youngster learning to draw I was lucky if I had 2 Marvel comics or a news paper to get some drawing ideas from let alone the billions of images online. Sometimes this can also be a problem known as overkill, information overload or spoilt for choice but that is not the issue we are concerned with at the moment.

This is how I fill my head with drawing ideas and it works like a dream, in fact I think perhaps I should be selling this to you but I am not because it’s free anyway.

I go to a site called Stumble Upon and stumble for images of the stuff I like, this soon fills my head, feeds my brain, feeds my need or feeds my greed it doesn’t matter because it just works like nothing else I know.

I never get to ask that question what can I draw anymore it is so easy?

For those of you who don’t know what Stumble Upon is then I will tell you besides being a fantastic place to store links to your favorite sites as a social book marking tool it also gives you the option to click a button and view random web pages that can be targeted to your specific interests. So you set it to view pictures and then click the button to look at random pictures of interest, it is another form of channel hoping except you can pick broad topics, this really brings unexpected drawing ideas to mind that feeds my need. I have to say it’s fantastic because it is to me at least, please remember a Marvel Comic as good as they where and a news paper is not much in the way of inspiration.

Then when I have got my drawing ideas off I go to Google Images, Getty Images or any of a hundred other places looking for source material to build my next drawing, pictorial illusion.

You people today don’t know how easy you have it.

Knowing what to draw is no longer an issue Join Stumbleupon and if you are wondering about what’s in it for me then don’t bother

http://www.stumbleupon.com/

Then the answer is there is nothing in it for me unless you want to do yourself a favor and stumble http://howtodraweasy.com/ that would help me to help you.

My stumbleupon what to draw method.

In settings, Manage Interests, I have the following selected because I am mostly interested in images if you have too many topics selected then your time becomes diluted with reading and not looking.

Arts

Bizarre/Oddities

Sculpting

Computer Graphics

Drawing

Photography

I installed the tool bar into my browser and whenever I am at loose end and don’t know what to draw I can stumble images and related information on stumble upon but to be honest I am never stuck for something to draw.

I often use this method not to look for drawing ideas or images to draw but develop the ideas I already have because I have been drawing for about 40 years so I have developed my discipline many years ago. I use the stumble upon image hopping process to give me new drawing ideas for what I am working on and it throws up some very interesting potential developments for these ideas that I already have as work in progress.

I also find it to be a good place to store Art/Drawing links to related web pages as favorites for future reference without clogging up my browser favorites and keeping everything related in one place.

Alternatively if you don’t want to join and use stumble upon then you can go to Google images or where ever your own preference might be to view images you like because by viewing images you are actually stimulating your brain into thinking about these, generating inspiration for developing your own.

Not knowing what to draw is about not being inspired and the best way to inspire yourself is to look at other peoples pictures, photographs or ideas which will fill your head and feed your need.

Some images created through stumbling can be seen below.

A picture of a car, a frog and a girl, all the girls love a frog ask Louie.

Dragon in the city stalking its pray.

This is the dragon stalking the girl.

All the most well known and loved stories in our lives are most often filled with elements that we can identify with and recognize, these are personal but also very similar from person to person so they are a shared reality, they are most often cultural preferences with common threads from one culture to the next and not so personal after all. This means that stories contain elements that are common to most people the same can be said of images, people recognize and attach meaning to images, the symbols within them and even the colors used become meaningful, this seems more so with time and maturity.

Girl on tong, maker pens and graphite pencil drawing see it on YouTube quickfirsts channel.

The further you move away from the norms the more unrecognizable your drawing ideas become and sometimes more outrageous or distasteful making them less likable in general to the masses but like I have already said “the answer is inside you”.

You decide what to draw through your own inspiration.

Spirit of the times pencil drawing, life and death.

Aerial maneuvers, dragon over the roof tops.

Negative space might sound like a science fiction phenomenon, a Doctor Who concept or something from Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy but to be totally honest it’s not.

Negative space is the concept of space surrounding an object, if you where to draw a car then that car would be positive space but the surrounding area around it would be negative space.

As you can see below the surrounding area known as the negative space still depicts the outline of the car and can be just about recognized as a car, making this an example of how negative space can be used to depict an image that is not actually there.

The example below will help you understand this better I am sure.

Beatles and a Honda Civic, positive, negative space what is it?

The space around an object is important and deserves consideration as it can be used to suggest objects when they are not even there saving you a lot of time because they are only used as outlines saving you the time of rendering the detail.

MC Escher provides probably the most celebrated examples of how negative space can be used to great effect and below is an adaptation of his ideas for illustrative purposes but best seen in his own work.

An example virsion of flying geese, birds and fish taken from work by MC Escher.

The image above taken from Day and Night 1938, with the original being made from a woodcut print in black and grey, printed from 2 blocks and Sky and Water II another woodcut of the same time

These are just two pieces of work from a vast collection of work by MC Escher that convey the use of both positive and negative space, the same image in both spaces creating a clever illusion which can be seen in many other examples like, the Chinese, Yin and Yang which is another very popular example.

In its visual form the Yin and Yang concept is conveyed as opposites of equal size and proportion, where each contains some of the other represented by the opposite neutral tones portrayed as black and white dots in its opposite portion.

The use of negative space to convey other double illusions can be seen in the images below where the use of simple outline cutouts portray a similar image to the main figure on the same theme of popular culture and music.

The example above takes contemporary images to convey them in both positive and negative space through the use of outline cutouts.

Below is a further development using outlines as silhouettes?

When drawing an outline of something as like when you are constructing a drawing, what you are trying to recreate is the line between the positive and negative space, for this reason it is important to be able to see that line, distinguishing the two.

The point where one stops and the other begins is the outline.

The Beatles and the 5th Beatle, negative, positive space.

The official MC Escher site: http://www.mcescher.com/ is a place to look if you would like to see some of the very best examples of negative space illusion as MC Escher was/is the grand master of optical illusion and negative space.

Sketching, draw and drawing are the same thing right, are they really, but of course they are, aren’t they?

To draw and sketch, are they the same?

Dictionary examples:

“To draw is to sketch (someone or something) in lines; delineate; depict: to draw a vase with charcoal, to compose or create (a picture) in lines, to mark or lay out; trace: to draw perpendicular lines.

A sketch is a hasty or un-detailed drawing or painting often made as a preliminary study.”

Many years ago when I was in school I took an option to do Technical Drawing I didn’t like it because it was more about mathematics, accuracy and precession with no room for mistakes, I did not consider it to be drawing at all. I believed it was too mechanical, too calculated and I did not realise then that all drawing is about these same processes of measurement but carried out in different ways using your eyes rather than a ruler. When doing Technical Drawing you know how to do it and how it will look before it has even been done but when you do some sketching these restraints are not as important as just getting something down on paper.

To me there is a big difference between them, drawings are about accuracy and detail, where as sketches are about speed and experimentation but to clearly define them individually is difficult because aspects of both spill into each other.

When you draw with accuracy the information you record becomes visual knowledge so when you sketch that same visual knowledge spills over into your practice to inform you’re sketching.

Sketching is about getting things right and wrong to test or find new ideas to drive your ability, where as drawing is about doing this but also it is about getting it right with all the details in all the right places.

Drawings can sometimes also go wrong which often inspires new ideas but with sketches there is less emphasis on accuracy so more opportunity for errors of judgment and greatly increasing the chance of finding happy accidents.

Happy accidents are where people find positive outcomes by accident and many great discoveries in art, science and all other areas are found often in this way, the one premise for doing this is you won’t find anything if your not looking.

When people draw they first sketch an outline then they sketch where the detail goes and then they draw in the detail. This process is one of the basic rules of drawing and sketching, along with working from light to dark.

When people draw they first make small light marks identifying where everything goes in relation and proportionate to everything else in the drawing as compared to the subject of your drawing or sketching.

Drawing focuses on conveying subjects through the deeper understanding of details contained within them, both require you to think about what you are doing at least in the beginning, both require you to constantly look from subject to work area.

Both teach you to see and to look for more, even when producing less detail you still learn to see in terms of plains, angles, curves, contour, light and dark, the process of drawing or sketching will both aid the development of this ability.

The more you do it the better you get at it, sketching, draw and drawing are the same thing right?

What on earth is Wildstyle graffiti?

How to draw Wildstyle graffiti is a question most difficult to answer perhaps the name gives us some indication as to it’s demeanor, the character of Wildstyle is that of being a secret message of the street but more so a message of the artist.

Each reputable artist has their own nuances distinct from each other.

Take your name/handle or what ever you care to call it but take as far as it can go and just that little bit more because you can. Arrows play a major role in all graffiti styles because they point and without trying to be smart that is the point. Graffiti is an extreme form of forced advertising a counter force rebellion against conformity and control from the media giants, the masters of a brainwash plan, conform or be executed for resistance.

Our social masters do not want us to be free and scream anarchy if we try to push the envelope beyond the norm, conform, you must conform saying it’s rubbish because we can’t read it as if it was ever meant to be read. Words and letters are deformed beyond recognition into the secret language known as Wildstyle stretched and misconstrued into the words of an anti social song, I am me, have it.

The media moguls conspire in secret but the Wildstyle writer secretly stands alone like a warrior on the edge of time forcing his message on an unsuspecting world, I am me, have it.

Long live the king the king is dead.

An example of Wildsyle Graffiti with plenty of traditional arrows for good mesure.

Above is a quick example of how to draw Wildstyle graffiti with heavy play on arrows and black outline, I am sure you could do better so please do if you want to write Wildstyle.

Study other writers in the same way old school fine artists study the masters such as Leonardo Da Vinci, Michael Angelo, Rembrandt to name only a few, this preparatory work informs your further development. Copy the Wildstyles of other writers in order to understand them, this will enable you to mix and match when drafting your own secret codes of resistance and form your own style.

Always start out with basic everyday readable letters then keep working them into oblivion, distorting them into the unrecognizable entangled mass’s known as Wildstyle, then do it all over again because you can. It pays to revel in your obsession I do digress for reason because that is how to draw Wildstyle graffiti by getting way off the subject but keeping the tiniest thread of whence it came.

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Make your own graffiti art because it’s not as difficult as you might think as it only takes a basic knowledge and some practice. There are numerous styles of graffiti, but the most common factors are as follows.

• They are painted in strong vibrant colors that often clash.

• They are intended to be attention grabbing.

• They are often emotive concepts that question the norm.

• They often contain 3D lettering.

• They often contain lettering that overlaps.

The heavy bold 3D lettering is very apparent in the majority of graffiti art images and is usually the starting point for most potential artists as it most often starts with your name, tag or handle. Many of the same distinctive bold style lettering’s used in advertising to create impact are also used by the graffiti artist so are a good place to look for ideas. It most often reflects and resembles the branding or advertising art world in many ways but chiefly as a counter alternative, usually with a strong social political massage that the artist is passionate about.

• The pictures or pieces of work themselves will contain sharp hard hitting  contrasts.

• They will be painted in stark vivid colors.

• They will be well defined with strong shadows and outlines.

The best way to start your piece of graffiti art is by drawing smaller ideas and outlines that you can later scale up to any size, this will help you to understand the problems you might face when attempting to create something bigger. Scaling your ideas is a simple task once you have a smaller drawing or painting to work from. There is an endless supply of ideas online if you need them for fonts to use in your graffiti as well as examples of graffiti created by others to feast your eyes upon and incorporate into your own work.

The tools to use for your designs or ideas are pencils, felt tipped or marker pens and fine line drawing pens all of these come in a very wide range of distinctive and vivid colors that make them an ideal choice for graffiti artists.  If you need ideas for a graffiti font to use, there are plenty of sites online that have examples for you to copy.

Outlines can be created with a graphite pencil and or any permanent black ink pen but fine line and wide chisel or bullet tipped markers are a preferred choice of many. Shading around the letters you’ve outlined with a range of different colors will enhance the 3D effects of your lettering to make it more distinctive.

Make your own graffiti art because it is really easy if you use these methods and it is not as difficult as you might think.

Yes I know that there are many who would not consider this graffiti but I say “make money not trouble”.

When you are ready to paint your outline drawings and ideas onto canvases or bigger surfaces you can use the grid reference method by marking out a grid over the top of the drawing you want to enlarge. You then recreate this grid onto the area you want to redraw your original drawing and then use it to measure where everything goes by comparing grids. Very large areas can be marked out with string by impregnating it with chalk or charcoal by simply rubbing it into the fibers, when the string is in this condition you stretch it out tightly across the area that you want to mark out. Then you pull it out from the middle and let it go so it then snaps back against the surface of the new drawing area leaving a mark imprinted on to it.

You can then use the chalk or charcoal to redraw the outlines onto your new drawing area. Spray paint the main outlines with a similar color to the background but a couple of shades lighter or darker so it will cover more easily if you need to change anything later, allow this to dry before continuing.

Then you can begin to fill in the details and your areas of color with spray paint in much the same way by starting with the lightest colors first and the largest areas then putting in the details. Finally you can carefully fill out the black outlines with your spray paints adding highlights and finishing touches at the same time, you can even use a brush to do your very fine details. Once again let me say make your own graffiti art because it’s not as difficult as you might think it is really easy if you use these methods and it is not as difficult as you might think.