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Drawing: Basic Steps You Should be Knowing

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Skills of drawing

Drawing is defined as the process of depicting any graphical representation. It is indeed a skill that can be acquired when practiced. Try following the steps given below to improve your skills.

Firstly, start with Identifying the edges. Consider the border between different parts of the picture as edges while drawing. 

Secondly, recognize non-object spaces. This is also known as recognizing negative spaces. Try to identify what disturbs us the most and just ignore it.

The third step and the most difficult step is recognizing proportions and angles. Use something convenient, constant, and relatable to the things we know. Learn this by using sighting devices and techniques.

The fourth step is to judge light and dark parts of your drawing. Give more importance to light shades of your drawing.

Finally, Put everything together. Once we learn these skills of drawing, we can draw anything that we used to observe. Use your drawings to send a message and make a difference.

Drawing: How to find time everyday?

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Draw everyday

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.

Different Tattoo Drawing Styles That You Should Know About

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tattoo drawing styles

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.

5 Basics Skills for Drawing Realistically

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realism

Drawing realistically is easier said than done. But at the same time, realism is something that can bring life to your creations. There are five basic skills that you need to master drawing realism. They are:

Identify the edges: One should be able to identify and differentiate two objects when they see their reference image. For this, they have to recognize the edge of these objects.

Identify shapes and spaces: While observing an object, one should be able to differentiate between object and space. For example, in a chair, the wood forming the body of the chair is a part of its shape, and the intentional voids in its design are spaces. 

Understand proportions, perceptions: To understand proportions, use your thumb or your pencil as a ruler.  Perception occurs when you view an object from different angles. For example, a wheel appears elliptical as we view it at an angle and a long straight road appears to merge at a distance.

Identify lights and shadows on your object: Study the basic tone, the dark tones, the darkest tones or shadows, and the lightest tones or highlights.

The last skill is the ability to use and practice all the above steps to enhance your skill and draw one final picture. Observe keenly and Practice these skills to draw realistically.

How to create an illusion of depth in drawing

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depth in drawing

A depth in drawing refers to the concept of making it look more dimensional and giving it a look of life. A lack of depth in drawing means it will be less than lifelike.

Some simple methods to create an illusion of depth in drawing are given below.

  • Volume: Drawing 3D objects shows more volume and indicates depth.
  • Size: Draw smaller objects farther away to create more depth in a painting.
  • Overlap: Draw images as one overlap over others to create more depth.
  • Position: Draw images as base positioned higher on the surface.
  • Edges: Draw foreground images with hard edges to give more focus. Draw background images with soft edges to look more blurry. 
  • Perspective: Draw images using linear perspective to give depth realistically.
  • Cast shadow: Draw cast shadows whenever necessary and adjust direction to the opposite side of a light source.
  • Horizon: Divide your drawing into the ground and sky by any medium like horizon line will give more depth.

Follow these simple methods and improve your drawing skills.

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.

Cartoon Drawing: Tips And Techniques

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Cartoon drawing

Cartoon drawings are fun to draw and see. Cartoon characters are made of various components. Knowing how to draw different parts of a character helps you draw more efficiently. Some tips and techniques for cartoon drawing are:

Start with the head: Draw an oval-shaped head with small ears on each side. Draw a horizontal and vertical line in the middle of the head and make these lines intersect to draw facial features.

Draw the face: In the middle of the head, sketch out the nose and place small circles on each side for glasses. Draw a small line below the mouth for the chin.

Sketch the body: From the bottom of the head, draw two vertical lines going down curving slightly outward. Draw these lines wider apart at the bottom than at the top to form a bell shape. Add the arms to the character and then place the legs and add the shoes. Add some accessories to give a funnier look.

When you’re finished, ink your character and give the final look.

Drawing Tips: Trick your analytical brain

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One of the biggest hacks you can do while drawing is to trick your analytical brain. Our brains are wired to treat the problem in one way and this is one of the reasons why we get stuck while drawing.

In one of the experiments done to prove this, some art students were asked to do a Picasso drawing upside down. They improved significantly when drawing the upside picture as their brains treated the problem differently. Rather than seeing the objects in the picture, the students saw shapes with which the picture was made of.

It was also found that while brain participates as a whole in certain activities, some activities like drawing require just one mode without the significant interference from the others.

So if you are struggle to draw a picture, try approaching it in a different perspective.

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 Tips: How to avoid smudges

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One of the major problems that we face when drawing is smudging. We, ourselves might end up ruining our drawing if we are not given proper attention to our actions.

Artist Brun Croes has an idea with which you can avoid this.

“When shading, use an extra piece of paper underneath your hand. This will minimise the amount your hand smudges your pencil lines. If you’re right-handed, start shading from left to right; if you’re left-handed, start at the right and move to the left. There’s nothing more frustrating than trying to make a clean-looking drawing that loses its brilliance and value thanks to smudging. Instead, use smudging to your advantage every now and then to smooth out shading. You can do this with several tools. I use a simple piece of tissue paper to get the job done.” He notes.