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I Can Draw, You Can Draw

09.16.2009 · Posted in Home and Garden Articles

Singing and playing sports requires talent, drawing needs it too. You need plenty of practice to draw good pictures. Attending a drawing class helps improve your drawing skills as a teacher will introduce you some basic drawing techniques. The teacher will teach you the right posture of holding a pencil and the way of using color. Though the teacher may assist you in certain extent, drawing is most likely coming from you.nnLearning a skill often requires a lot of practices with patience, and there is no exception for drawing. To some people, drawing might come to them as a natural talent. But for most people, they often have to drill on their skills to draw well. To help you learn drawing, below are some useful tips.nn1. Start with a pencil if drawing is not a familiar thing to you. This way, if you make a mistake, you can simply erase it and you do not have to start from the beginning again.nn2. Practice with simple things first. Stick figures would serve as good starting points for beginners.nn3. Try to use different shapes to develop more physical drawings. Just like you can draw circles for head, hands and feet, while drawing ovals as the body, arms and legs. After that, you can just erase some areas to connect all other shapes, then add some details on it, like fingers, eyes or hair etc.nn4. Practice by tracing over different images. This would not only help you develop your instincts on drawing, but would also help you better understand the technique of spacing.nn5. Sketch more. Whenever you see something interesting, just sketch it. It does not matter if the drawing does not really look like the actual thing. Just sketch more and try to pay closer attention when you sketch, your skill will eventually improve.nnIn order to further improve your drawing skills, taking art classes can equip you will more fundamental principles. Getting more and more practice and experience, you will be able to master the art of drawing. Thus, you may ask a teacher to assist you in choosing right materials. Last but not the least, to be succeed in drawing, you must like it! Otherwise, if you don’t have any interest or passion for it, you will never be a great drawer.

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