Tag: Drawing Tips and Tricks

Drawing Hair: Here are some tips you should know

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Hair is one of the most important body parts when it comes to drawing. Ruining the hair can in turn ruin the whole picture that you are drawing.

Since hair holds high importance in making a picture look good, we will be listing down few tips which you can follow when you are drawing hair.

  1. Always start by laying the overall shape of the hairstyle with pencil.
  2. Dark pencil strokes create the illusion of length. The band of lights creates the idea of curves.
  3. The color of the hair is determined by the darkness of your pencil.
  4. The pencil strokes always replicate the hair’s direction and length.

4 Drawing Tips that a Beginner should know

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Being a beginner is always good as it allows you to learn. This applies to drawing as well. When starting, there are some tips that you can follow and we will be listing down four such tips below.

  1. Start with the object that is in front of you
  2. When you are start drawing, draw from a point of focus, like an eye or a door of a building.
  3. Tracing is not a good idea and it doesn’t make you learn. So better to avoid tracing.
  4. Color the light areas first then overlay dark color on top when you are using markers or paint.

Following these tips can drastically improve your drawing and could set you up a good foundation which you can build.

Drawing: Beginner Tips for choosing the right tools

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Drawing is a process that involves so many factors. One of the major factors is the tools that we use. For beginners, there might be confusion on what to use and what not to use when they start drawing.

If you are stuck at such a point, then we are going to help you out.

Below are some basic tools that most of the drawers out there use. Now, this is just a framework and you can change and swap as you draw more and more.

  • Three different pencil grades (usually HB, 2B, and 6-8B)
  • Drawing/sketching paper or sketchbook
  • Soft rubber graphite eraser
  • Basic metallic sharpener
  • Tombow Mono Zero eraser

Once you have these, start scribbling and find out how changing each of these tools can impact your drawing.

Drawing Tips: How to solve Head Proportion problems

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Drawing the head of a person is a daunting task. As there are so many features involved, we often end up messing it. We focus on the features such as eyes, nose, lips, and hair and end up drawing these features too big.

The best thing you can do to avoid this is to take some time out to study correct head proportions. Even though every person is unique, the face is divided into thirds for everyone.

Also, the amount of space that you need to leave for the forehead for adults and children is somewhat easily understandable. Once you understand these two major factors, you might see a big improvement in your drawing.