4 Habits to become a better artist

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If you’re an aspiring artist, you would have met your worst enemy of all time: the art block. The worst thing about an art block is that many times, it is self-inflicted.

Here are some habits you must build to say goodbye to art blocks for good.

Bye-bye takers: Next time someone asks you for free artwork, say no. They do nothing but drag you down. Anything is more appreciable when it comes with a reward or a price.

Stop scrolling: The internet is the best thing when it comes to both amplifying or sabotaging your creativity. Try to choose your sources of inspiration from outside the screen.

Don’t try to be original: Instead of trying to draw something that is a hundred percent original (which is almost close to impossible), observe existing ideas from a unique perspective and express them authentically in your drawing.

Be grateful: In other words, stop being narcissistic, which is a complex that develops over time. The world doesn’t owe you anything just because you’re an artist. Be grateful for whatever gifts you have in life instead of expecting more of it.

Start enjoying your art life more with these habits.

How to preserve your pencil drawings

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Nothing is more painful than seeing the drawing that you’ve been working so hard on going to waste due to a lack of proper preservation. Learning how to preserve your artwork is just as important as drawing itself. 

Let’s see some ways to preserve your pencil drawings.

Parchment paper: Use parchment paper in between two drawing sheets. This waxy paper will help to preserve your drawing for a long time.

Lay your drawings flat: Store your drawing horizontally, thus preventing rolling corners and wrinkling of the paper.

Fixatives: Use a matte or glossy finish spray fixative to coat your drawing to prevent it from possible future damage. Be careful to use the fixative in a properly ventilated area.

Avoid frequent handling: If you want to archive your artworks, avoid handling them now and then. Preserve them in a practically inert space with lesser interactions with humidity and sunlight.

Use clear bags or laminations that allows your work to be seen without being removed from the protective covering. All techniques have pros and cons. However, it’s always better to resort to one such technique to make your artwork live longer.

Different Tattoo Drawing Styles That You Should Know About

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Tattoo drawings are a type of art form easily created on our bodies. To choose the right tattoo drawing, we need to get some ideas of different tattoo styles. So let’s get started with ten different tattoo drawing styles.

  • Traditional tattoo style: Tattoo styles with designs like roses and anchors, bold lines, bright colors.
  • Realistic tattoo style: Tattoo styles with black and grey portraits.
  • Watercolor tattoo style: It is a modern tattoo style and is done by ink on the human body.
  • Tribal tattoo style: Tattoo styles with black and elaborate patterns.
  • New school tattoo style: Tattoo styles showing caricature and exaggerated features.
  • Neo-traditional tattoo style: These are tattoo styles with vibrant colors and line works. They use floral and animal tattoo drawings.
  • Japanese tattoo style: Tattoo styles featuring old Japanese stories including phoenixes and dragon tattoo drawings.
  • Blackwater tattoo style: Tattoo styles which uses black ink only.
  • Illustrative tattoo style: It refers to versatile tattoo drawings.
  • Chicano tattoo style: Tattoo style with cultural influence. This style includes black, grey, and fine lines.

Although there are these many styles, the final output depends on the artist and the person that is getting the tattoo.

Drawing Tips To Improve Your Line Works

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Learning to draw the basic shapes should be the first step to mastering the art. Below are some tips that can help you in drawing the same.

  • Try drawing or painting repeating patterns. It can be like watercolor paintings or gouache.
  • Try doodle without a ruler, free-hand. Try experimenting with lines and patterns. Try to start drawing anywhere and then keep adding details.
  • Try drawing one shape, over and over again. 
  • Start drawing circles. Try drawing one circle over another circle.
  • Try different groovy doodle letter drawing.
  • Try drawing knots. A simple tip is to draw your everyday adventures.
  • Try drawing mandalas with different watercolor paints, pens, pencils, and gouaches.
  • Drawing with different tools help you gain experience. Try drawing with charcoal, pastels, and neocolors. Start drawing with all sorts of brushes.
  • Start drawing faces. Try experimenting with hairstyles and expressions.
  • Avoid smudging and control your edges.
  • Try using a blending stick for smooth shading.

Follow these simple tips to improve your art when you are at a beginning stage.

Mandala Coloring Tips That You Should Know

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Mandalas are geometric shapes that originated from Hindu rituals. Mandalas are easy to color because of their symmetry in design.

Some coloring tips for your mandala drawing are:

  • Choose your colors: Start with a controlled color scheme. Mandalas are all about focus and concentration. Limiting the colors can make mandalas more beautiful. Checking out the colors in a piece of paper is also an effective method for choosing colors.
  • Start from the center: Start coloring from the center. This method will help you color more logically and symmetrically.
  • Use the same colors for repeating elements: Using the same colors will create a balanced and symmetrical look.
  • Help you relax: Mandalas are for stress relief and relaxation, don’t overthink too much while coloring. Use your natural creativity to color.
  • Add tonal gradients and blends: Choosing smooth color gradients and two to four colors are suitable for mandalas.  

Follow these simple coloring tips and create beautiful mandalas. 

Basics Of Charcoal Drawing That You Should Know

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Charcoals come out in different forms. Some are dark and some are soft. Either way, Charcoals are very good for drawings with deep shadows as it gives rich black tones for your drawings. Below is what you need to know about Charcoals.

The different types of charcoal

  • Willow and vine charcoal: They are long, wispy strips and can be used for light drawings. They are very delicate and do not provide a dark shade compared to other charcoal. 
  • Compressed charcoal: Best suitable for drawing fine lines and textures and is harder compared to other charcoals. 
  • Powdered charcoal: It is dusty and needs a paintbrush or cloth to use it.

Some other supplies you needed while using charcoal are paper, white eraser, kneaded eraser, chamois, and tortillon. Also, be careful to use these following tips for charcoal drawing:

  • Don’t go too dark.
  • Try experimenting with different materials.
  • Keep your paper clean.

Go through these basics of charcoal drawings and create beautiful pictures.

How To Choose the Best Materials For Your Toolkits

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Choosing the right tools can help you become more confident in creating the best artwork. Some tool options best suited for drawing are listed below:

  • Graphite pencils: Pencils ranging from 9H to 9B are best suited for the drawing. It also provides the smoothest strokes. Try solid graphite pencils after you gain experience.
  • Charcoal pencils: It tends to smudge easily and is more abrasive compared to graphite pencils.
  • Ink: Ink drawing is also a popular medium and used for drawing thick and thin lines.
  • Pastels: Pastels provide colorful artworks and there is no need for brushes, palettes, and water. Commonly used pastels are oil pastels, water-soluble pastels, and pastel pencils.
  • Carbon and watercolor pencils: These are blacker and smoother pencils which are suitable for drawing on any surface like metal, plastic, and glass.
  • Blending and sharpening tools: Helps to add texture to your graphite marks.
  • Kneaded eraser: Also known as putty rubbers. They are dry and do not smudge.

Having the right tool is important to create art and understanding them is the first step before you make the leap of choosing them.

How To Create Your Own Personal Style Of Drawings

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To start creating a personal style, start looking for everything with a fun and creative mind. Some simple ideas for adding personal styles for everything you draw are given below.

  • Go on an art-viewing binge: Check out everything, not just drawings. Explore different kinds of books, websites related to arts, and cartoon strips.
  • Get the basics down: Try learning the basics and start breaking the rules. Try exploring different techniques like pen-stroke techniques, shading, and drawing with perspectives. Start learning the basics of drawing and set your paths.
  • Bite the expert’s style: Refer to sketches of other artists and explore different ways of representing it in your way.
  • Hit the art gym: Practice daily drawing like you are exercising regularly.
  • Step outside of your comfort zone: Start challenging yourselves for drawing realistically.
  • Doodle: It is best for your hand-eye coordination. 
  • Rinse and repeat: Start drawing the same thing again and again to find your style.

For some people, they can easily create a personal style others require time. But the key is to practice continuously and create your styles.

Surrealism: Basics You Should Know

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Surrealism has been one of the most popular branches of art, and it is so because of the sheer strangeness of this style. In surrealist art, nothing is bound by the laws of reality, even though the images are realistic. Here are some ways to help you get your way through surrealism.

Find objects that interest you and connect them: The connection has to be so irrational that it should shake anyone who stumbles upon it.

Get inspired: Inspect works of great masters like Dalì and Magritte to understand how to blend all your ideas. These pioneers of the style have created innumerable surrealistic masterpieces.

Keep the initial sketch as simple as possible: Work in layers and add more layers as you start adding more details.

Lighting: Lighting and composition are just as crucial in surrealism as it is realism. Identify the light source and adjust the shadows and highlights and mid-tones accordingly.

Ultimately, all you need to draw surrealism is the ideas in your head. Give life to absurd ideas and ditch all the rules of art with this style.

Get Inspired for Art: Tips You Should Know

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Sometimes even though you’re in your workspace surrounded by your favorite art supplies, you might find it hard to draw because of a lack of inspiration. Let’s go through some ways to get inspired to make art every day.

Create something every day: Spend some time every day to give life to a new idea, and it will, in turn, stimulate another new idea.

Clean your workspace: When your mind feels empty, get rid of a few things from your work desk, and start fresh. Make sure that your workspace has only things that you work with.

Don’t always rely on the internet: Sometimes, it can be overburdening to see other artists’ work. Try to draw inspiration from nature or other things you love rather than something you see online.

Write down your ideas in a journal: Fill it up with whatever incites emotions in you. You can later use this list to get ideas for your artwork. This can also be therapeutic for you.

Embrace your mistakes: Be brave enough to make mistakes and learn from them. Don’t let the hesitation hold you back.

Follow these easy steps to be infinitely inspired by yourself for your art.