Tips for drawing better.?

Question

Not anime, cartoons or portraits just general things like trees, buildings an grass. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Drawing better requires retraining your brain. You have to see things as if you have never seen them before. Ignore your brain classifying the subject. Your brain tries to simplify familliar objects (like trees) into cartoon-like images. Break this habit.

Look at the subject as if you are an alien seeing it for the first time. Look for large, basic shapes first and then add details later.

Relax and give yourself time to draw. Tell yourself that you are going to throw it away after you draw it. It's just paper. Allow yourself to make mistakes and experiment.

Practice drawing your hands, or your hands holding various objects.

Try to draw with a single line instead of the broken, scratchy lines that lots of people consider sketches.

Answer 2

The best way to learn to draw (or to draw better) is to see and to draw negative space. Negative space is the accumulation of shapes that share edges with positive forms. If you draw the spaces acuarately, then the positive forms will essentially "take care of themselves," and also turn out accurately. You can practice by observing and drawing chairs, because the legs and slats create many different negative spaces. You can observe negative space in and around anything, though. Set up objects so that you arrange negative spaces, then draw them. Drawing negative space helps you to activiate the mode of thinking required for good observational drawing.

The most most effective way to imrpove drawing skills is to practice all the time! Make lots of drawings. Cheers!

Answer 3

I find that turning your brain "off" is good (‘couse it tends to draw from memory).
I.e. you draw a lock of hair using mostly lines ‘couse you “know” that’s what it is, but in reality your eye sees NOT the individual hairs but a shinny body with a texture that follows a cretin direction for the length of the body. So just draw what you see not what you know, it just translates to lights & shadows on paper. But if u wanna mix it up a little be expressive & identify the feelings that arise from what you see. Oh yeah, have nice pencils, pens, brushes, chalk, fingers or whatever you use.

Answer 4

If you are drawing from a picture.. or from a still life, the best thing i can tell you is that you want to look at the object 90% of the time.. you should only be looking at your paper the other 10%.

It's all about carefull observation!

Answer 5

Use faint lines for the outlines, and multiply them across a 1/4 inch or more. Erase as necessary.
Also, use as much oval and round shapes as possible. These give the approximate area of each formation or part of a formation, and will tell you if your proportions are about right.
Then you add detail.
Good Luck!