Why are some people better than others at drawing?

Answer 1

natural talent is onley 10% people who draw well practice again and again and look carfuly at things. examining detals ect... drawing get better with age.

Answer 2

Actually everyone can draw, and I mean everyone! If we take Japan for an example, they are routinely taught to draw as children, hence they have a massive market of drawing material called manga (the Japanese word for comics and print cartoons), and pretty much all adults can draw there.
If you feel you can't draw, your kicking yourself down before you've even started! Where 'professionalls' are concerned, they generally just have a talent for picking up some simple methods, and these are;

1. try drawing a line picture 'upside down' so the picture is the wrong way up to where your sat and so is your paper (and what you draw on it). This will mean you will have to pay particular attention to the shapes the drawing is made up of.
2. Draw shapes, not lines. Lines are a lot harder to master and come with a lot of practice. I've been drawing for 15 years and still find straight lines a challenge.
3. 'Talented' drawers always practice. You may only see them when they draw out a fantastic picture, but ask them what they were doing when they were young on a Saturday night and they will likely say, 'drawing'.
4. Shading is nice way to cover up those unsightly mistakes.
5. Copy other artists work you like - like the curve of someone's hair? copy it! like how they've drawn someone's clothing? copy it!

Some people do pick up drawing quicker than other people, these people generally have better hand-eye co-ordination that the average, and so find it easier.

Answer 3

For the same reason some people are better at singing than others. It's genetic. Of course practice can make people who draw well draw superbly, just as practice can make horrible artists draw a little better. But, in the long run, it's an inherited trait. Any art teacher can tell you that some students simply weren't meant to do anything with a pencil except probe wax out of their ears.

Answer 4

Natural talent just means you get to spend less time practising.
It doesn't necessarily make you better.
Good drawing really can come from just learning a few tricks of the trade, like about measuring proportion.
Some people are good enough that they can freehand a perfect circle, the rest of use just get out our rulers and compasses. In the end, talent or trade, both are well done.

Answer 5

Alright, this question really bugs me. It implies that the person asking it has bought into the notion that they cannot draw well.
Please allow me to help you out. Art, in this case Drawing, is about an individual expressing themselves. A mark on paper, a sculpture, a song, a smell, a feeling, its all expression.
We're taught that in order to be socially acceptible as someone who can 'draw well' whatever we draw has to look like what we see.
BULL!
What about impressionists who draw impressions of what they see, or people who draw what they feel? These people aren't giving true representations of what they see (not unless they're on some serious hallucingens or have a really bad astigmatism, they're not anyway!)
Yet, they're still socially acceptible as being good drawings.
This is my opinion and then my suggestion to you personally.
My opinion is that ANY person can draw well, as long as they can communicate what it is that they plan on communicating in a visual medium on a surface. This includes using shapes, color, anything that will get the job done. My advice, is that if you feel like you can't draw as well as you'd like to, read 'Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain', it will not only reinforce the things that I've said here, but it will also train your eye to see the way that you'd like to in order to draw the way you want.

Answer 6

Art is in the eye of the beholder. Some people think the art of the Tate Modern awful. others spend millions. Today it depends on media circuits. And if you fit the charge, then you fit the criteria.
You can paint or draw to your hearts desire. You can use a number of mediums. You can establish your own movement, or establish your own freedom, and no one can take it from you.....

Answer 7

I think Leilialoha's answer was right on. Everyone has a talent. Mine happens to be drawing, more specifically portrait drawing. But I'm terrible at painting.

My children are all musically inclined...me - can't carry a tune in a bucket.

I think it all comes down to the talent God gave you. Now, what will you do with it?

Answer 8

Well, everyone has the abillity to draw. Some people have to work at it harder. I guess some people are just born with a differnt perspective that helps them draw.

Answer 9

I love to draw, but I am out of practise right now so drawing something now wouldn't look too great.

But it's like with everything else you want to be able to do - practise!

Answer 10

A natural eye and the ability to imagine the finished piece,natural perspective, it is a skill that you can explain to a student but they have to have it in them in the first place,you cannot be taught to be a good draughtsman