How can I learn to draw?
I can only draw a cartoon dinosaur and that's because I traced it a hundred times. I want to be able to draw people, animals, buildings, etc...I wa...
I can only draw a cartoon dinosaur and that's because I traced it a hundred times. I want to be able to draw people, animals, buildings, etc...I want to be able to draw those sort of things by just looking at them rather than only being able to draw what I can trace. Both my mother and my brother can draw very well. How can I?
I know that it takes time and practice..but what am I supposed to do, how do I start?
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Practice, practice, practice. To determine what to practice, get a teacher, mentor or someone who draws.
Takes years and years, be patient.
I love to draw human faces. I learned by learning each part of the face part by part. Then I just had to learn how to put them all together, there are many tutorials on the web; but I like to try and teach myself just by look at pictures of faces, that way I don’t know how to draw it in only one way, and I can tweak it to get the look right for what I am sketching. I hope this helps.
what you want to do is look at human faces and study that face, and the same with animals buildings and back grounds. Once you got a pretty good understanding of it then draw it, simple as that. it may not look right at first but if you keep on practicing you will see the difference
You can never do enough life drawing. Also learning about the biology of whatever you want to draw (skeletal system, musculatory system, etc) is important. The more you know about the way the body is built, the better able you’ll be able to draw it the way it should be.
Take life drawing classes, carry a sketchpad with you as much as possible and draw things around you. But instead of focusing on shading and crosshatching and things like that, you need to learn how to build up your drawing properly. Ever wonder why so many drawing books start with drawing a person in geometric shapes like spheres and cylinders? It’s because you need to make sure the underlying structure of your drawing is right, and the easiest way to do that is to simplify the human body into simple shapes. That way you can see whether the basic positioning and proportions of your drawing are correct. Once that’s done, you can move onto roughly refining those shapes and adding the major details, all the meanwhile making sure the proportions are correct. After that, you can block out basic shading in simple two tone pattern (light areas, dark shadowed areas. 2 values, that’s it) to figure out how light should be hitting your figure.
Only after all that do you start working on shading. If you start out a drawing focusing on things like shading, you’ll be shading things with wonky proportions and a weak structure underneath.
This isn’t the only way to work, but the bottom line is as long as you work at increasing both your knowledge of anatomy as well as drawing (structure, tilts, porportions, perspective, etc) your skill will grow. Having that knowledge base of how to draw well will give you the foundation necessary to jump off and draw any way you like, in any stylized way you want without having weak drawings.
If you know how to use torrents, there’s tons of drawing books you can download that’ll help you out.