[?] Subscribe To This Site

Drawing-Lessons, Learn to Draw

Here are a few simple Drawing-Lessons. You can learn to draw with confidence! Some simple warm up exercises you can do. Just copy the below pictures. First, do a few loops attempting to make a uniform circle. Try different things like keeping the height uniform, or the spacing between each circle the same. This will help with warming up the finger, hand and wrist muscles and helping your eye hand coordination.

Pictures of simple drawing-lessons exercises below:

learn to draw

Drawing is a skill that can be re-learned fairly quickly. Why do I say re-learned? Because, we all have this ability. As a child, we all have learned these exercises in Kindergarten and First Grade. We were taught in order to Write! We learned how to draw all sorts of things. But somewhere in that process, we received either positive or negative reinforcement. You either continued to draw, or began to look at other things you were good at in order to receive that positive reinforcement. Your drawing skills may have began to wain from that point on. We can get them BACK! Start with these simple easy drawing-lessons!

Simple shading exercises below:

learn to draw

Shading or Modeling is one of the keys to making realistic paintings and drawings.

As discussed in greater detail for the dead layer, when you get this right, your paintings will be extraordinary!

Picture of barrel to tree example:

learn to draw shading

Picture of Easy apple:

apple drawing

We will talk a little about perspective. This is difficult for some to understand, but it is explained here in a very simple manner.

This is more of something you need to think about, or a bit of head knowledge that explains what you see in nature. If when drawing and painting you draw and paint exactly what you see, this will not be a stumbling block for you. The key here is "observation".

I repeat myself here because it is something that needs to be remembered throughout your art travels. You must paint and draw exactly what you SEE! Not what you think should be there, or what your brain tells you should be there, but only what your EYES show you to be there!

Below pictures of perspective:

perspective single point

double point perspective

What your head knows is that the road is equal distance from either side of you (parallel), but what you see when you stand there are 2 lines that converge onto a point way down the road in front of you.

This point is called the vanishing point. To make convincing drawings, this needs to be drawn as you see it. You will notice things further away from you are smaller. Colors that are bright up close become faded and gray the farther away they are from you.

Don't get to caught up in perspective right now. Still life pictures will have a certain amount of perspective to worry about, but if you draw and paint what you see, you will not have any trouble!

Hey! Before you check out, take a few moments to relax, and enjoy a great cartoon site. (He also has some phenomenal teaching methods that will improve your drawing techniques!)It's here at How to draw funny cartoons!