Drawing tips?

Question

I stink at drawing lips, noses, eyes, and clothes. Any tips (other than practice, I already practice alot...)

Answer 1

Find your own style of drawing. You see people who make cartoons having there own signature drawing style try making one that works for you. I love drawing cartoons and have been trying to find a style for years and I still don't have one that I'll definantly keep. Try copying other styles from cartoons, comics, etc. and make small changes in them onece you master that change make another until its all your own. Also try buying a book for that type of stuff. Don't try so hard either just doodle on a piece of paper or a notebook and eventually you'll see your drawings get better, don't try so hard. If you stink at drwing li[p, noses, eyes, and clothes, try to make them more cartoon-like and less realistic. Have fun with it.

Answer 2

If you have problems with lips, eyes, and nose it is because your brain is geting in the way. The brain is set up to recognize these features and many people when trying to draw them think I'm drawing an eye...what does an eye look like.

What you should be doing is trying to draw what you see without interpreting it. Some people suggest using a mirror or drawing upside down, but this still won't get the brain out of the way.

The best way to do it is draw a face sideways. The brain is not wired to recognize a sideways face. Doing this will feel quite strange at first because your brain will want to interpret it and you will feel tempted to turn the image. However doing so you will quickly notice things you never saw before.

Answer 3

The most important thing to do is stop thinking in a flat way. Right now your doing what all beginners do and that's drawing outlines. An eye is a sphere with lines running over it, not an almond shape. Start by drawing a light ball and then run lines around it visualizing in your head that it's actually round, not a circle. Start by drawing simple geometric shapes, like a cylinder, cube, pyramid. Once you start feeling more secure with these start combining them to create simple objects. A wine bottle is a series of cylinders, a phone a series of boxes. Always start lightly and build a foundation for your subject, then gradually refine your rough shapes. and only at the very end do you add on details. Best of luck!

Answer 4

Frequently when I want to learn a new style or when I want to learn to draw something I've been having trouble with I will get out a pad of tracing paper and trace, trace, trace until I start to pick it up. Then I find black and white pictures of what I want to draw and I try to draw them sometimes I do well enough that I only have to do a couple of these practice drawings other times I fill up many pages in my sketchbook. Unfortunately it really all does come down to practice, practice, practice, in the end but thats the way I've found helps my best when just plain ol' practice doesn't seem to be enough.

Answer 5

Look at a photograph or a drawing of the things you find it hard to draw. Study the shapes, shadows, lines etc. Then try to copy what you see. The more you practice, the better you'll get. You need to teach your brain how to draw what it sees, not what it assumes something should look like. Pay close attention to detail. the little details are what make drawings realistic. Hope that helps!

Answer 6

I'm still learning myself, here are a few tips I've learned though:

1. If you start a drawing, finish it. No matter what. Even if it sucks. You must finish it.

2. Think about angles, don't draw in the same direction all the time, draw profile, draw looking down, looking up. This will help your perspective.

3. Draw things that you don't normally draw. Draw a vase, a house, your favorite person, yourself. Draw something totally different for you as an artist. Even if you think it will suck, do it anyway. Its a good exersize.

hope this helps.

Answer 7

Observation is the most important.
For drawing human facial parts and expression, try to look from magazine any nice angle of human face , put it on the light box, and trace it till u get the feeling. The more u trace, the more u learn.
For guide, u can draw elderly person's face, its easier and u'll get tons of experience from it.

For Clothes, learn about the fabric and texture, once again, observe the material.
Style wise, u can browse through fashion magz
The way of the fabric flow, its abit similar with how u draw hair contour.
U must have a strong foundation of body contour to make the fabric fits nicely on body

Hope it's helps!

Happy drawing! :)

Answer 8

find a black and white photo of a face and turn it upside down. draw the darks and lights exactly as you see them and don't think about lips and eyes.

do blind contour drawings. don't look at your paper (some people put their pen through a piece of paper so they can't see their paper while they draw). draw very slowly, like an ant walking slowly around the edge of the thing you're drawing. always keep your eyes on the thing you are drawing. everyone hates doing this, but it's great for learning how to draw.

the key is really looking at what you are trying to draw.

Answer 9

There are many things you can do to become good at drawing, but it takes time and some patience, some of these stuff are:-

- Draw everyday.
- Train and enhance your observation skills
- Draw from a reference
- Always try drawing new things
- Learn to drawing something, then move to the next thing
- Draw what you like
- Read about drawing, perspective and at anomy
- When you try to improve, focus on your weak points.
- Put as much time into it as you can, but it is okay to start small

I hope this help

Answer 10

Smack's answer is good. It sounds like that is a reference to the book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. I suggest using that as a "drawing class"!