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Drawing: How to find time everyday?

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If you wish to improve your drawing skills, daily practice is a must. Let’s see ways to squeeze in some drawing exercise in your day to day life.

Reduce your TV Time: Stop binging on TV and start using that time for drawing. An even better option would be to try to merge both the activity by expressing what you see on TV in your drawing.

Keep doodling: Make 5-minute or even 1-minute drawings to continuously involve in the process of drawing. This way, you will be able to draw readily whenever you want.

Doodle while listening to something: It can help you to draw as well as retain more of what you have just heard or read.

Get up earlier: Wake up 30 minutes before your usual wake up time and squeeze in a drawing warm-up. If you’re not a morning person, try to do the same at night instead of morning.

Stop procrastinating: Do it now. No matter how small your drawings are, these small contribute to improving your skill can help a lot in the end.

Get better at drawing by finding time for daily practice with these easy steps.

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.

Basics Of Charcoal Drawing That You Should Know

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Basics of charcoal drawing

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 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.

Digital Art: What You Need to Know

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The never-ending debate that digital art is not “art” has been on the rise recently.

Just like traditional art, there are different types of digital art. There is vector art, 2D digital art, 3D digital art, pixel art, and much more. The difficulty in both art essentially depends on the type of drawing.

One major difference is the presence of the undo button in digital art, which makes clearing your mistakes in the digital medium a lot easier than the traditional medium. You can go back and forth without making your work a mess.

The flexibility of working in layers in the digital medium gives you the liberty to actively make mistakes and correct them. This freedom, however, is limited in traditional art which makes it a lot more rigid when compared to digital art.

However, the textures in traditional art are almost too hard to achieve with digital art. Also, the hand control required for digital art is much more when compared to traditional art. 

Degrading a form of art just because it looks easier is pointless. It’s always advisable to be open to experiments and suggestions before choosing mediums that work the best for you.

Crayon Drawings: Simple Tips That You Need To Know

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crayon drawings

Crayon drawings help us travel back to our childhood memories. Most of our drawing journey started with crayon drawings. Nevertheless, crayons are not just for kids, they can be used as a wonderful art medium.

Some simple techniques can be used to create beautiful arts and are listed below:

  • Use a paper that will grip the color evenly: Try Stonehenge or illustration board.
  • Have a good hand-held sharpener handy: Try to keep a point on the crayon.
  • Professionally apply the crayon: Use it as a fine art medium and use the control, not just as kids.
  • Build your colors gradually, and layer them: Start drawing with light colors. Give dark colors on top of the drawings.
  • Some colors are more transparent than others: Test your colors in a separate piece of paper to make sure they work properly. 
  • Too many layers of crayon can make the colors resist each other: Use a few colors to get better results. 
  • Scratch out small lines and details with a craft knife: It can give detailing to your drawing.

Practice these simple tips and draw beautiful crayon art works.

Drawing Tips: What You Need To Know About Perspective Drawings

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Perspective drawing

Perspective drawings make objects look smaller as they move into the distance. It gives depth and dimensions to images.

Some tips for drawing perspective are the following:

  • Place the horizon line: It would be better to place the horizon line either very low or very high in drawing. When the horizon line is above character it gives users an impression of them being in a higher position. When the horizon line is below character it gives users an impression of them being in a lower position.
  • Utilize a one-point perspective: Try to avoid putting vanishing points right in the middle of the space of the drawing. It creates too much symmetry to draw and is a bit unnatural.
  • Create a two-point perspective: Place either one or both vanishing points outside the edge of the drawing. It gives a natural look to drawing. Also, try to up your skill using analog tools.

Incorporating these methods of perspective drawings will help you to improve your drawings.

Ink Drawing: Tips And Tricks You Should Know

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Ink drawings

Ink drawing is a process of using pens to apply inks for drawing. Ink drawing materials include ink, drawing pens, graphite pencil, eraser, and many others. 

Below are some tips for your ink drawing:

  • Choose the right pen for your drawing.
  • Get your grip right: It is good to hold the pen close to the tip and keep pen and paper at about 45 degrees.
  • Start with pencil sketches: Pencil drawings are easy to erase and drawings are easy to erase after the ink is dry. Give more attention to the eyes when drawing with inks.
  • Explore different textures: Try using different contrasting textures for a visual treat.
  • Try to clump your hair while ink drawing.
  • Try experimenting with silhouettes. You can also try some crow quills for drawing. Crow quills help to create different lines ranging from fine to extremely wide lines. Also, try to use some clean lines for face drawings.
  • The most important thing is to be careful while choosing the color.

Follow these simple drawings and create beautiful ink drawings.