How To Improve Your Drawing Abilities: Improve Your Best Skills Or Decrease Your Weaknesses?

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How To Improve Your Drawing Abilities: Improve Your Best Skills Or Decrease Your Weaknesses?

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By : Ruediger Schmidt 29 or more times read

Submitted 2010-01-15 16:37:33

Even if you are on pension like most of my students, you've only narrow time and energy for your drawing hobby. And if you're creating art as a profession then hours and energy may be actually more limited and of value to you!

And then you could be asking yourself: what should I center on when drawing? You could work on increasing your potentialsor you could put time in eliminating your weaknesses.

Rather a delicate question. It is crucial to think some time on the question into what to put your hours and energy.

On the one hand you could center on your best skills. Let's say for instance that you're great in sketching smooth and naturalistic blendings. So you could put more of your efforts into more improvement of these skills. Some more time will bring your skill-level from "great" to "uber-great".

But then you could put your energy into mending your weaknesses. Let's take for granted you need many more practice in portraying proportions and perspective more precisely. Putting effort you can move your skill in this area to at least intermediate levels.

But a second! If you center solely on fighting your weaknesses, you will commit many hours to transform these weaknesses into solely second-rate skills. In the end that implies you will end up with nearly only intermediate skills, the result is only averageness.

You understand there are both vantages and disadvantages to both choices be it expanding your abilities or be it fighting your weaknesses.

Many artists try to tell you: leave your weaknesses and concentrate on your strengths. That's a good advice but as you will see only a fraction of the truth.

So what to do?

First it is critical you know your weaknesses and you have to recognize to what extent your weaknesses spoil your drawings. An example: When creating many pencil pictures, below average abilities in perspective and proportions will impede you much more than nonexistent skills in the use of colors. In fact these abilities are utterly useless as long as you stay with drawing black-and-white pencil sketchings.

And that's the important thing: only ignore these weaknesses that don't affect your drawing results and artwork. But put a good share of your energy and time into those weaknesses that keep you from achieving better creations and sketches. Try neutralizing these weaknesses - and only these!

So you'll have lot of time and energy left to try improving your existing skills even farther. And that's what you ought to do, too. If you follow this strategy you will get the best outcomes achievable for your efforts.

One closing addition: these tips may read a little like those efficiency stuff taught in business schools. And yes it is quite similar. But it is not proposing to pressing the last drop of creativity out of you and your time! It is only for doing the right things in the right order that help you improve your sketching skills most.

And naturally please don't forget the entertaining part of sketching. So if you prefer to try and practice a new technique as it is fun then just do it! (and don't think about whether it may help you or not ...)

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