need help drawing
Andrew Holler
At school, I am a terrible drawer. I can't draw anything decent.
You've heard of stick people right? Thats what I can draw, I was
wondering if anyone could give me some tips of how to draw anything
alittle more compicated. Thankyou
Andrew
Jenn Goodland
Don't worry if what you're drawing doesn't look exactly like what's on
the paper. Frida Kahlo and Henri Matisse are good examples of artists
who went on their impressions of the figure and face rather than the
literal graphic translation. Look at Degas' nude sketches - the way he
treats the lines is graceful and tender despite their roughness.
A good exercise: In black and white or greyscale, sketch according to
shade and light, not shape and form. Or, draw with your eyes closed,
with only the picture you have in your mind's eye to guide your hand.
ncf...@neosoft.com
wrote:
>The first thing I advise you do to is to not be stuck on realism.
>Don't worry if what you're drawing doesn't look exactly like what's on
>the paper. Frida Kahlo and Henri Matisse are good examples of artists
>who went on their impressions of the figure and face rather than the
>literal graphic translation. Look at Degas' nude sketches - the way he
>treats the lines is graceful and tender despite their roughness.
I politely dissagree. People like to point to great artists and draw
their inspiration from the artist's lack of structure and realism.
What they fail to realise is that all of these artists were also
masters of realistic painting. Picasso could paint a still life as
well as and realist, he just took that one step further. Abstraction
as an artistic ideal came from the impressionistic and other movements
of centuries past. It (abstractionism) was an attempt to capture
ideas rather than images, but in some ways it is much harder than
realism.
Let me put it another way. These artists painted what was in their
minds eye and was generated by years of study in basic asthetics. How
could they have hoped to pain their imagination if they couldn't even
capture what was right there in front of them?
My advice would be to keep at the realism, improvement comes slow.
And remember that art should be fun, don't worry about being too
good.
Lucy Blandford
of something quite simple at first and try and draw all the lines and look
at the picture loads. Any small line you see try to draw it exactly how it
looks I know it sounds stupid but try looking closely. Some people just find
it easier to draw than others. I think a good thing is put shading in it
looks more professional!
This probably doesn't help much but you can give it a try.
Lucy
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Borgwiser
drawing battles scenes between ships. They were horrible. I kept drawing
them. They got somewhat more believable and better over time but still
pretty much stunk.
Several years ago in high school I knew a kid that could draw absolutely any
cartoon or comic book character with minimal effort. I could not draw
Charlie Brown to any recognizable degree. That summer I took several comic
books (I started simple with things like Looney Toons) and sat down and
looked first at the image I wanted to duplicate and then tried to exact that
image on my blank sheet. I will freely admit, it looked horrible. The eyes
weren't symmetrical, the mouth was crooked. After several weeks things got
better. I stopped trying to copy out of books and moved onto other stuff. I
had an image in my mind of a really cool layout of the inside of a house. I
used that image as my object and drew it. After many minute changes and
alterations, I finally came out with something resembling what I had
imagined. I began to draw scenes of mountains and trees, although shading
is more important there than simple lines. I never took an art class, so I
knew nothing about art prior to this. I never did anything related to
drawing, but I did accomplish a task I wanted. But you know what? I still
cannot draw a good phenyl ring (hexagon) in my organic chemistry class. Go
figure.
Elizabeth Deans
concentrating on the actual object(s)
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Chris
quickly. It takes time and practice. And one great way to learn is to try to
duplicate other pictures. Things like comic books are a great place to start.
That's pretty much where I started, then I moved on to things like photos of
cars. Eventually, you will get better. It doesn't hurt to look through "how
to" books on drawing or watching how others draw things. As with just about
everything though, it works better when you keep trying it yourself. Good luck.