Drawing is no different and so in the beginning you need the right help and information to get you started in the right direction with your best foot forward.
I have been drawing to a high standard for 35 plus years and I have read a substantial amount of information about how to draw and all of it gives the same information over and over again because there are only a few basic rules. All of this being important information to know and understand but also a bit unnecessary and a bit advanced for beginners because these basic learning to draw rules are about looking understanding and translating what you see.
I have looked at hundreds of web sites offering free information about how to draw with all of them providing the same or similar information that is designed to get you looking.
The problem in the begging is knowing how your tools work, what they can do and how you can do it as well as being able to look at something accurately retain that information so you can reproduce it onto a drawing surface as a recording. I do not know about you but that seems to be a little complicated and quite an obstacle to overcome as a beginner.
Don’t worry too much about this though because at least your first ten drawings are likely to be very disappointing not as good as you would like them to be after putting in what feels like a lot of hard work and this can be very disheartening.
There is a solution to this problem that makes it easy to draw or lets not say easy but much easier to understand first in the beginning.
The solution is so simple they teach it in primary school to children but the only problem with this is as young children we are not capable of understanding the concept of composition, tonal variation or perspective. The result is that much of this knowledge is wasted because it is more interesting to play around and just enjoy the doing.
You see when we draw we tend to draw a basic outline and then keep building onto that so as to create our image, picture or drawing we do this by looking and trying to copy what we see.
The only problem is that looking at your object then at your pencil and hand doing the drawing in rapid succession is difficult because we don’t usually do this in our every day life so we have to learn to look with intent.
This can be very frustrating and difficult at first because if we are doing something with our hands then we tend to look at our hands. We get carried away looking at them especially because we are doing something.
We tend to do this instead of looking at what it is we are trying to draw, we are looking at our drawing and making it up so when we look back it is wrong or not very accurate because we weren’t looking.
This is now becoming very complicated because not only are you having to multi task but also teach yourself new habits while trying to break your natural instincts to look at what your doing.
The easy draw solution to this problem is tracing because when you are tracing pictures you are looking at the object with intent at the same time as using your hands to draw it so this makes it much easier to habitualize other skills while still learning about looking.
It enables you to relax and learn in an easy step by step draw system that helps you grow with your confidence instead of stressing yourself out trying to understand too many skills at the same time.
To learn to draw easy methods just keep going and follow the link above.
