How To Learn How To Draw

You would like to learn to draw but don’t know where to begin? Well look no further!
This article will highlight that just by using a couple of simple shapes that anyone can do, you can study to draw literally anything you want to, with increasing confidence and enjoyment. Every object you look at around you – a house, animal, a face, boat, mountain, tree and so on can easily be constructed by using one or a combination of just five basic shapes. All you need is a square, circle, triangle, oblong and oval.

The beauty of this way of learning how to draw is that you decide the shape or shapes.You might see a drawing of a flower starting off as an oval. Someone else learning how to draw could see the same flower as a circle. It doesn’t matter. It’s what works for you that’s important.

On a piece of scrap paper, lightly and quickly sketch these shapes a few times.
Allow yourself only about 5 or 10 seconds at most to sketch each shape. Do different sizes and proportions of every one. The shapes don’t have to be precise. You are merely using them as guidelines so your circles may be less than perfect, your squares not quite square.

Just focus on doing them quickly and softly. You might need to go over the circle 2 to 3 times before it looks right to you. Fine! After a little practice you’ll be flabbergasted at how confident your later efforts will be in comparison to your first attempts. Let these basic shapes be your slave not your master! You must remember that oblongs and ovals may be longer or fatter than those shown, whilst triangles may be stretched in several directions.

But just how do you learn to draw more complex objects? Easy. Break them down into several of the basic shapes. Draw these in gently at first to get the normal outline of what you would like. I want you to recognize that all practice sketches are less than perfect because that’s what they are – practice! It’s tempting for you to tidy up the lines – perhaps even go over them in ink and eliminate all the unwanted marks so it looks in some way more ‘professional’ to the viewer. All the same, I trust that by seeing’warts’n all’ sketches it’ll inspire you to learn to draw. Trust me, it’s OK to have all those little smudges and roughly drawn guidelines to start with. I promise you’ll recuperate and more confident the more you practice.Then you can consider producing a tidier, more refined image. As it ought to be. Nonetheless, by doing these rough practice sketches without constraints, you’ll observe to draw the finished piece so much better.

That’s how you learn!