Drawing Pencil Sketches, where you start your masterpiece!Drawing pencil sketches on an oil painting site?Yep, it’s an integral part of your oil painting process and in the growth of your eye to hand co-ordination. On my Learn to Draw page, I talk a little about that, but go straight into short cuts to get you painting quickly without doing a great deal of drawing. We used carbon paper, grids, or a projector to get your drawing onto your canvas. Now, we will learn some time honored traditional drawing techniques that will help both with your oil painting, and who knows, may open some doors for those that want to explore graphite and charcoal drawing as a finished art form. Things we will explore from this page will be:
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An earlier drawing of a child in traditional lederhosen outfit.
My friend Joseph Christmas. We spent time in technical school together while I was in the Air Force. Being stationed near Biloxi Mississippi, we didn't miss out on Mardi Gras, New Orleans. Good time, good memories!
Why bother showing these drawing pencil sketches?They don’t really qualify as a pencil sketch, do they? The first may qualify as it was done in less than a hour, the other two probably not due to them taking a bit longer. And the definition of a sketch is something done quickly.I did, however, want to show you the power behind the simple 2B pencil and a kneaded rubber eraser. Thats right! Pencil, erasure, paper. That's it! With only these three items, you can really produce a powerful and quality product for yourself, your friends, family, or art buyers! Now, it’s back to school! And time to get down to business with drawing, and no greater place then with drawing pencil sketches. These are done early in the oil painting process to help you develop a great composition. Whether it be the still life, a flower, a portrait or a landscape. The thing you are after is a drawing that simply put, is done quickly (and accurately), and will give you a good sense of the finished product. You are drawing mainly to see if the composition you are putting together is going to work. We call these “thumbnails”, as they a small drawings. Here’s an example or two: Here’s a sketch from my journal done while investigating a landscape that would include buildings, and then several of the still life used in composition pages of the site. 
Now that you have the idea, go out and try a few! These really are simplistic sketches that just get the ball rolling. Drawing pencil sketches will improve your ability to create great compositions, it will also improve your eye to hand co-ordination each time you work one. It is a simple expression of what you see. No need to get to elaborate with shading and details during your first attempts. Just squint your eyes and get the main masses and objects. Going more for accurate proportions and sizing of the objects being drawn. How important is this you ask? Well, This painting below is a direct result of drawing pencil sketches before executing the painting and verifying that the composition was going to be the best it could be. It also helped me greatly in deciding the objects I would use within the painting.
And also, do check out Christopher's course on drawing. It truly is great instruction in this area of art! To top of drawing pencil sketches page.
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