Saturday, July 16, 2011

Drawing Tips and Techniques to Help You Learn How to Draw


Drawing is a fun hobby and in fact something that you can also make money with. If you want to learn drawing, there are also a few drawing tips and techniques that can help you learn fast and make better drawings. One good thing about this hobby is that, you don't need to have other expensive equipment, you can just have a pencil and a clean sheet of paper and you can learn how to draw right there.

If you are starting with a pencil, learn how to make vary the weight of your lines. You can make darker lines by pressing your pencil more or create lighter lines by lifting it up a bit. With varying weight of your lines you can emphasize major forms as well as finer lines in your drawing and make it more impressive.

One of the drawing tips and techniques that you may want to start with is to start drawing light lines. These very light lines will help guide you before starting to make a final drawing to avoid mistakes. Although it is normal to make mistakes in drawing and with light lines, you can easily correct them.

Having a light guide will also help you check the proportion of your drawing to make it fit the space that you have. One common mistakes of many is trying to draw right int the space and finding out afterwards that they don't have enough space for the hands o the feet, which can lead to having your subject too big for your space.

Avoid drawing in hard edges unless they are hard edges. Outlining them in hard lines can make your drawing flat, so start with finer lines and only use hard lines to what is suppose to be dark lines. Keep your pencils sharp so that you can easily make finer lines. You may need some blunt pencil for some lines and shadows too so you may also have some blunt ones ready as well.

Never rest your hands on your drawing or in the space that you still have to draw. Your hands can smudge your drawing and can damage it. No matter how clean are your hands, the moisture in it can make some parts of the paper you are working on hard for erasures later.

Learn the hatching technique in drawing. This is one technique that allows you to draw parallel lines to add the appearance of value o your drawings.

Of course, shading and highlighting are also important techniques in drawing and even with your pencil, you can actually learn these techniques to give depth and dimension to your drawings.

These are just a few drawing tips and techniques that you can start learning to make better drawings. If you are interested in drawing, you can also get a good resource where you can learn each step in detail and learn techniques step by step as well.




Carolyn Anderson loves to learn drawing. To learn how to draw cars, check out Draw Cars Fast. Also check out Model Train Help, a guide to help you design, construct, and maintain a model train.



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