Drawing: A Review of How to Get Started and How to Improve

Drawing can be considered as setting lines, shapes, values, and tops. Learning to draw as a skill is like learning to write and most of us remember that struggle, even though cursive is becoming a skill that is no longer available in many schools today.

There are many principles related to the drawing process: doodling, drawing, writing, etc., but this article will focus on the act of drawing as a process of translating an object with three elements or setting with marking tools.

This process is fundamental to all forms of art and design. Look around you. Everything made by humans began as a facial expression.

It is drawn as a view, and then drawn more precisely to better convey the idea, either to a drawing table or to a computer-assisted editing process (CAD).

But let’s talk about painting not only as an art form, something that has not been heard for many years, but as a way of seeing.

In a good way as Cezanne or Ingres or David were able to paint, during their lifetime, painting was considered the first foundation of a painting, a living life, or a painting of the world. Today, their paintings can stand on their own as beautiful works of art.

Their process of analyzing the form and then translating it into shapes, lines, values, and formations of paper with pencils, charcoal, chalk, and ink – with an amazing perspective – leaves us with amazing visual and study functions.

At one time, their paintings came up with modern standards of art that are stronger than the emerging paintings.

Drawing is a process and should be achieved as such. I would recommend that you never be willing to “make a drawing”. Use drawing to analyze what you see. Find the controls between you (graphite, coal, etc.) and use a large sheet of paper.

Draw using a large muscle controller before attempting to use good motor skills. That will come. Don’t worry about the details. That will come.

Placing precise details on a painting with a rough appearance, misunderstanding of a place or an uncomfortable space, and a little understanding of composition, is like decorating an adobe-made cake.

Look at your title (let’s imagine it is a stage of life with a nude model) and start drawing circular or circular stripes, quickly photographing the chest, hips, upper and lower legs, arms, head– you move your hand almost always from part to part. This is a touch drawing. Capture the position and relationships of the basic conditions very quickly.

You have to have a loose pattern of “written” circles and walls all over the body in just a minute, no more. The action diagram forces you to focus on the basic forms and their relationship to each other.

This is the basis of the understanding form and its position in space. In elementary school our drawing professor had us fill out 18 “x24” newsprint pads – both sides of the paper – and use 8-10 pads in a 12-week classroom.

We used willow and grape charcoal in these experiments and understood the human condition in space. Do this and you will do it.

Then apply this technique to landscapes, animals, and life. Even standing tall. We have a tendency to want to draw a “picture” with precise details.

If you are working on that goal and are willing to work hard on these and other tests, you will be able to create a meaningful, realistic, and accurate “picture”.

Draw. Draw as much and as often as possible. Take it as a way to see and understand. The best book with a matching book is Betty Edward’s Drawing on the right side of the brain.

Read it to understand, and then do the exercises. You will be able to draw (or draw better) in eight weeks or less.

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