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5 Tips for creating incredible illustrations

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Here are a few important tips that will help you sail smoothly in the world of illustrations.

Design for the User: One might lose himself trying to make stunning visuals. But it might become too unrelatable for the audience or the end-user. In this case, it will be better to start illustrating a basic sketch and add visual details to satisfy you as well as the user.

Avoid complex symbols: It is crucial to avoid any sort of symbolism that pertains to any culture or language in your illustrations. It is also wise to avoid any colors that may be offensive to your target. Do a brief study on the audience.

Follow color hierarchy: Use a minimal color palette of two to three colors. It helps the user to understand the hierarchy in the illustration better.

Spacing: Ensure that there is plenty of breathing space and as few elements as possible in your design. Remember that less is always more.

Use Grids: It gives you more control. It can help in abolishing the vagueness in your work.

Understand all these rules well as you learn and break them once you master them.

Drawing textures using pencil: What You Need To Know

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The smoothness or roughness of a surface is called texture. The type and amount of texture determine how much light reflects off it.

A hard and smooth surface like metal or glass reflects all the light. As a result, it creates sharp, crisp edges and contrasting highlights and shadows.

A soft surface like cloth, absorb the light, and create smooth transitions between light and dark values.

On a rough surface, the light hits only less area, which creates a softer range of highlights and shadows. Ridges on the surface catch all the light creating dark shadows.

Here are some tips to draw common textures.

Clouds appear in the smooth sky. First, lightly crosshatch with a pencil. Blend smooth with the cotton to create the sky. Erase out the sky with the white eraser to form clouds.

The water surface is reflective with ripples on it. Use a side-to-side rocking motion to draw this. Small parallel gaps between the lines act as the reflection in the water.

To draw foliage, work in layers. Scribble random lines to create the leaves. Draw the branches that are not hidden. Then add more layers. Use an eraser to lift off highlights.

Keep these tips in mind before you draw your next picture.

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.

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.

Cartoon Animal Drawings: Tips And Techniques

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Cartoon animals are easy to draw with some basic shapes. They are usually represented with large eyes and pupils when challenging characters are represented with a mix of two or three basic shapes.

Simple tips for cartoon animal drawings are listed below:

  • Large circular eyes located in the middle of the head: Eyes are drawn from the basic circle shape. To increase the level of cuteness, pupils are made large. Draw two small oval shapes inside the pupil to add more personality to a cartoon character.
  • The head is made from a circle that is not quite perfect: Draw circles as slightly rectangular or a rectangle that is not quite circular.
  • A large body filled with plain colors: Try to fill cartoon animal characters with plain and saturated colors.
  • Adding depth to character: Use a darker color for elements located behind the character. Also, draw some simple shadows if needed.

Follow these simple tips and draw beautiful cartoon animal characters.

Crayon Drawings: Simple Tips That You Need To Know

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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.

5 Tips for charcoal drawing

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Charcoal drawing is a technique which makes use of charred sticks to get a beautiful output. There are some tips with which you can improve your charcoal drawing and we are going to list them down below.

  • Find the essence: It is important to create the main idea or essence of drawing. The main idea is what the image is about, and what you want to say with it.
  • Learn the value of value: Value refers to the difference in light to dark shade on a range of one to ten.
  • Squint: Squint is the idea of simplifying your drawings. Squinting also helps to see simple shapes easily and add more essence to drawing.
  • Explore thick and thin lines: If every line is drawn with the same width it gives a monotonous look. The rule is to draw lines on top of things as thinner and underneath objects as thicker.
  • Use an eraser: Charcoal drawings are easy to control. Use an eraser to easily remove or erase what is not needed in your drawings.

Follow these simple tips and techniques for beautiful drawings.

How to create an illusion of depth in drawing

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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.