hey...guys...help me out!!.....i like drawing....but i'm not good at drawing.....how do i start....developing....the quality...of an good art drawer.....and one more thing....i admire..a lot of drawings...on the net...and at art exhibitions....
2007-04-04 20:30:46 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Drawing & Illustration
Buy a pad (or two) of acid free drawing paper and put it and a selection of pens and pencils (and other tools if you wish) in a plastic envelope you carry with you at all times. If you do not find opportunities around you, start working on changes so that you have time riding buses or visiting where you can sit back and draw what you see. Besides getting some books that give you examples you can follow and work, go to museums or other places with statues and work on drawing some of them. In the beginning, you will not have the time or patience (or strength of legs) to draw a whole face or head, so work on getting part of it done. By working from the 3D, you will see how the light produces shadows and shading and you will discover observation - seeing how the nose fits between the eyes and mouth, etc. Also, you will want to go to the other extreme and learn to lay down in a few swift lines the proportions of a face or body, so that you have them recorded before the person moves (something I am not very good at - I dwell on the details.) Drawing from the figure books are good for alerting you to proportions - the little rules of how most heads have the ears placed with respect to the eyes, but also making you sensitive to how differences make the individual - if a certain point on the ear is on average in line with the eye, you will note the effect of it being higher or lower.
Draw, draw, draw - and evaluate without being too quick to condemn or give up.
2007-04-04 20:49:01 · answer #1 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well i started just copying things with a HB pencil. As you learn they're are different mediums of tonal pencel to work with from teh softest 9B to the hardest 9H.
Copying is a good way to pick up things (dont copy right though bad idea) like how a sertain eye is done for a fact. I draw Manga, and one way i learned more is by looking at how to draw books and watching my friends. I also am starting on backgrounds, to do this as i said before watching other people helps. Also go out side and draw what you see, take pictures and try to copy, it might not be your best work at 1st (little to say about my friend who has neva done art b4 and is a grade A+ student) but still if you like to draw just get out there and do it, the worlds a great place and your own back yards the best place to start, so go to a good book store and go by a good how to draw book on what eva it may be you wana learn to draw ^^ WHO knows you may be the next Leonardo Devinchi (cant spell)
2007-04-04 21:02:26 · answer #2 · answered by Paint_Me 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Buy these books,widely acclaimed to help start the creative process. You can refer to them at a pace which suits you, and they have been written for EXACTLY the question you ask:
The Artists Way : Julia Cameron
Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain : Betty Edwards.
you wont look back.
2007-04-05 04:09:07 · answer #3 · answered by RadicalReason 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋